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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 Intersectionality, animal and anti-colonial activism, Israel-Palestine, settler colonialism, ethnography, phenomenology
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
Summary Posthumanist applied linguistics, feminist perspectives, and the representation of animals and birds in news media, science, and the arts
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
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, 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
Summary Dog welfare; ethical dog acquisition, 'breed' and dog caretaking attitudes and discourses
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
Summary Literary representations of animals, domestication and feminism
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
Writing and Cultural Studies, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Ministry for Primary Industries New Zealand
Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences
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.
Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University
Summary Multi-species ethnography; animal biography
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 Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species History
School of Medical Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle 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.
Australian Anthropological Society's 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow
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.
Summary Representation of animals in literature; animals and contemporary Australian poetry
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
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.
Australian Representative
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.
University of Technology Sydney
Summary https://anthrozoopod.wixsite.com/anthrozoopod
https://www.kissingsharks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZyC9YmMBM&t=22s
I have many roles: academic, student, research assistant, editor, dog-human, ecofeminist
associated with: Australian National University, University of Canberra, University of Tasmania
Post Graduate Researcher and PhD Candidate in Anthrozoology
University of the Sunshine Coast
Florida International University
University of New South Wales
Summary Animals and food; animals and art; animals in feminist theory; "tranimals" (animal inside trans-); performance
Environmental Defence Society
Summary Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law
Summary Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.
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
Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
Professor of English and Associate Dean Research
School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
Summary Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies
University of New South Wales
Adjunct, University of Technology Sydney; Research, University of Wollongong
Summary Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation
Lecturer, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
University of New England
Summary Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations
Summary Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism
Southern Cross University
Summary Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure
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
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
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.
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
University of Veterinary Medicine
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
Royal Holloway University of London
Yiagilang Ngarrngatj Seeking Knowledge Research Unit, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
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 and Cultural Studies Programme Coordinator, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts
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.
Bachelor of Sculpture and Spatial Practice, 3rd year
Victorian College of the Arts
Summary I am a 24 year old artist and writer living in lutruwita/Tasmania. I am passionate about human/animal ethics, contemporary animal philosophy and visual art surrounding the topic of animals, to which my practice as a whole is devoted.
Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation
University of Technology Sydney
Master of Arts by research student
University of Sunshine Coast
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
Swedish university of Agricultural Sciences
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
Australian National University
Summary Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism
Summary Animal health, illness and healing practices in society, with a focus on Tibet, Bhutan and the Indian subcontinent.
Head of School, School of Creative Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Summary Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
Independent Researcher & Consultant
Sharma-Brymer Consultancy Services
Summary Independent Researcher & Consultant, Sharma-Brymer Consultancy Services.
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.
Subject Coordinator, tutor and supervisor
Summary Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Summary Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India
PhD candidate in Fine Arts
Victoria College of The Arts, University of Melbourne
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
Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant
University of North Texas
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
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
Senior Lecturer, 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
Cinematography lecturer/tutor
Honorary affiliate researcher
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
SOLES, University of Sydney
Independent film maker and writer
Summary Nikki is interested in the use of more ethical forms of tourism to improve the welfare and conservation of Thailand’s captive elephants.
Summary Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.
Doctoral Candidate – Doctor of Philosophy, specialization in Environmental Education
