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Valdosta State University
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
Summary Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings
Swinburne University of Technology
Summary Caitlin Anderson is undertaking a PhD at The University of Sydney and researches literary animals in contemporary Australian fiction.
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Summary Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.
Senior Lecturer, English Literature
University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice
Summary Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation
Summary Animal law, animal rights, human rights, environmental protection, international and comparative law
Sessional Lecturer, adjunct researcher
Summary Health and safety for racehorses
Anthrozoologist and host of the podcast The Deal with Animals
The University of Melbourne
Summary Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics
Summary Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection
Summary Human-animal relationships in the intersection of sustainability studies, ecological thought and social change for sustainability.
Welfare conceptions of the thoroughbred industry and of animal protection organisations.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Lecturer, Level B
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Summary Animal Welfare; Canine Health.
Independent Scholar
Aotearoa New Zealand
Summary Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism
School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong
Summary Animal Studies; modernist art and literature; critical and cultural theory with a focus on the lived experiences of non-human animals – particularly those in the cattle industries in Australia. Founder and chief editor of Animal Studies Journal
University of New England
Associate Professor in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Summary Animal welfare law and regulation
Summary Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation
Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Summary Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief
Lecturer, Environmental Science
School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University
Writer (fiction, poetry)
PhD Student at RMIT
Prosecutions Officer
Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Science, The University of Technology Sydney
Summary Animal law and science; Animal welfare
Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute
Summary Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities
DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology
Summary Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection
University of Adelaide and University of Nottingham
University of Southern Queensland
Summary Dr Ellie Coleman is an installation artist who is passionate about practice-led research and animal ethics particularly in contemporary art.
Adjunct Institute for Culture and Society WSU and Independent Scholar
Western Sydney University
Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS), emilie.crossley@elms.hokudai.ac.jp emilie.crossley@cats.hokudai.ac.jpHokkaido University
Masters student, University of Divinity
Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Summary Farm- and working-animal welfare, including live export; ethical food production; animals as “raw materials” and research subjects; animal abuse and neglect (particularly concerning farm animals)
Summary Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals
Summary PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning
Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
Summary I conduct research in animal studies and in anthropogenic extinction, in particular extinction’s cultural and historical significance and the way it is articulated and practiced.
I am an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University in Western Australia, and a series editor for Sydney University Press’ Animal Politics series.
I am a member of the Extinction Studies Working Group http://extinctionstudies.org/ and have published widely on extinction, and species and colonial histories. See: http://www.rickdevos.net/publications.
I have recently edited a collection entitled Decolonising Animals (Sydney University Press, 2023), and in 2019 I co-edited, with Matthew Chrulew, a special issue of Cultural Studies Review entitled ‘Extinction Studies: Stories of Unravelling and Reworlding’.
San Francisco State University
University of Southern Queensland
Associate Lecturer, UNSW Art + Design
PhD Candidate, MADA, Monash University
Summary Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the ‘New World’. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
DECRA Fellow, Anthropology
Australian National University
Honorary Senior Fellow,
School of Law
Summary The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.
Queensland University of Technology
Summary Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice
Australian National University
Summary Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.
Course Coordinator of Master of Social Work Program
Queensland University of Technology
Summary Heather Fraser is a critical social worker who uses visual methods and narrative research in the areas of violence and abuse (humans and animals), oppression and privilege, community organising and service delivery.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Summary Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships
Summary The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising
Visiting Lecture in Sociology and in Animal Welfare
Summary Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies
Fiction Writer (Independant)
Summary I am a fiction writer and see literature as a powerful, covert means to shape sociocultural conversations and individual world-views by exploring the complexity, ambiguity, and consequences of human experiences and understandings.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of the Free State
Summary Michael is an animal historian interested in animals’ subjective historical experiences.
Summary Through the exploration of the social worlds of greyhound racing and rescue I consider how animals and people can become entangled in contention as a result of different beliefs around human-animal relationships.
Southern Cross University
Summary The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.
I have many roles: academic, student, research assistant, editor, dog-human, ecofeminist
associated with: Australian National University, University of Canberra, University of Tasmania
Summary My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity’s relationship to the more-than-human world.
Post Graduate Researcher and PhD Candidate in Anthrozoology
University of the Sunshine Coast
Cinema Studies at Nagoya University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Summary Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexual Violence Prevention
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Environmental Defence Society
Summary Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law
RMIT University Melbourne
Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies
University of Melbourne (VCA, School of Art)
Summary The cultural history of bats; animal art theory and criticism (colour theory, human-animal relations, theory for the Anthropocene, decolonisation); animal language; plant sentience; more-than-human perception
Researcher and Director, EVER
Summary Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education
Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities
School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
Summary Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies
Adjunct, University of Technology Sydney; Research, University of Wollongong
Summary Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation
SOLES, University of Sydney
The University of Queensland
Summary Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations
Summary Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism
Victoria University of Wellington, School of Design Innovation
Independent film maker and writer
Deputy Head of School, School of Arts
University of New England, NSW
Summary Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline
University of Technology, Sydney
Lecturer in Law
School of Business and Law
Summary Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Summary Creative writing, animal studies.
Summary I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
University of the Sunshine Coast
Lecturer in Political Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
Summary Linguistics research –
counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming. The conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses
Lecturer, Animation and Interactive Media
RMIT University, Melbourne
Summary art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality
Forrest Foundation PhD Scholar
Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, University of Western Australia
Summary Animals in Indigenous rock art; animals and social identity; decolonising taxonomic identification; ethology.
Vice-chair, Australasian Animal Studies Association
Summary Dr lynn mowson is a sculptor whose practice is driven by the, often violent, entangled relationships between human and non-human animals, in particular agricultural animals and the biotech industries. Her sculptural research has been featured the books The Art of the Animal, Lantern Press, 2015, Carol J Adam’s Neither Man nor Beast, Bloomsbury, 2018, Animaladies, Bloomsbury Press, 2018. She has exhibited widely in Australia, and her artwork was included in SPOM: Sexual Politics of Meat at The Animal Museum, LA, in 2017. Currently her collaborative work ‘feeler’, focusing on the motherhood and consumption of Octopuses is touring Australia as part of Experimenta Life Forms.
Discipline of Media and Communication, University of Sydney
Summary The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing
Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development
Summary Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
Honorary Professorial Fellow, VCA; Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
VCA, University of Melbourne; and La Trobe University
Summary Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals
Senior Researcher, School of Social & Policy Studies
Summary Positive training, operant conditioning for companion, zoo, farm animals; animals and public health; impact and human control/management of introduced species; attitudes toward and policies on urban animals.
University of New South Wales
Summary Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.
The University of Auckland
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Summary Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.
Principal Scientist
Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Animals, an open access journal
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Summary Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics
University of the Sunshine Coast
Professor of Critical Animal Studies and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies
Summary Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Summary Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.
Summary Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.
Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation
University of Technology Sydney
UTS/TAFE NSW Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion and Textile
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant (Theology)
Summary Creature-inclusive theology that acknowledges the value and dignity of non-human creatures. Animal Theology, Pentecostal Theology and Pneumatology
Honorary Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies
Summary My current research focus on public attitudes to animal welfare identifies and maps recent shifts in the Australian imaginary and public sphere around human and animal relations.
Summary Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics
Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy
Australian National University
Summary Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism
Associate Professor in Visual Communication
University of Technology Sydney
Summary Storytelling, conservation, science communication, climate communication, visualisation
Independent Scholar / Adjunct Subject Coordinator
Summary Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.
Associate Professor in Creative Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Summary Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
Co-founder and Managing Director of Voiceless,
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney
Summary Ondine is the Co-founder and MD of Voiceless, author and PhD candidate at Sydney University focussing on pro-animal values.
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Summary Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
Chair in Human-Centred Technology
University of Southern Queensland
PhD candidate in Fine Arts
Victoria College of The Arts, University of Melbourne
University of Technology, Sydney
Research Officer, The University of Adelaide
Co-founder, International Association of Vegan Sociologists
Sociology & Animals Thematic Group Co-convener, The Australian Sociological Association
Book Review Editor, Society & Animals Journal
Summary Dr Zoei Sutton is a sociologist interested in critical, nonhuman animal-centric research.
Summary Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics
Summary Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter;
Patron, Help in Suffering Animal Shelter, Jaipur;
Assistant Editor, Australian Animal Protection Law Journal
PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)
Summary Raising the importance of protecting existing wildlife populations in local urban planning; The relationship between front-line emergency responders and companion animal ‘owners’ or guardians in natural disasters
PhD (Animal Law) Candidate
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School
The University of the South Pacific
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
Summary Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)
Summary Human conflicts regarding wildlife; macropod management in the Australian Capital Territory
Summary History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics; Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
Summary Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Summary Primary research interest is the relationship between how nonhuman animals are depicted and what this might have to say about how these animals are thought about and treated.
RMIT University Melbourne
Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School
Summary Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.
Sydney Environment Institute
Research Fellow with Project Air
Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong
Swinburne University of Technology
Summary Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice
