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Summary The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.
Psychology Lecturer- Master of Professional Psychology
Latrobe University, Department of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, Bundoora, Australia
University of New South Wales
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
University of Western Ontario
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
Summary Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings
Visual Artist & Researcher
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.
Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute
Summary Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities
Summary Caitlin Anderson is undertaking a PhD at The University of Sydney and researches literary animals in contemporary Australian fiction.
The University of Melbourne
Summary Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics
Summary Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Summary Primatology, care, empathy, animal ethnography, compassionate conservation, critical animal studies, animal ethics, speciesism, illustration, creative outreach & education
Environmental Defence Society
Human Services Graduate Research Coordinator
Summary Sociology of human-animal relations
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 I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Summary Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.
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
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature
University of South Australia
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Summary Hayley Singer writes essays on literature and ecologies, queer embodiment, strange weather, literary meat works, the contemporary Fleischgeist, ignored histories, and on reading and writing as worlds end and begin again
Associate Professor in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Summary Research interests / activities
• Cultural theory (post-structuralism, deconstruction, posthumanism)
• Continental philosophy (Derrida, Foucault, Arendt, Lyotard, Hegel and Nietzsche)
• Biopolitics, political philosophy, animal politics
• Environmental humanities, ecoculture and philosophical ethology
Current research projects
• Living Together: New Approaches to Multispecies Conflict and Coexistence (with Matthew Chrulew, Dinesh Wadiwel, Thom van Dooren, Jacqueline Dalziell, Dominique Lestel)
• On the Specific Existence of Animal Culture
• The Forms and Limits of the Concept of the Political: A Speculative Genealogy
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
Wildlife Rescue South Coast Volunteer
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthrozoology
Summary https://anthrozoopod.wixsite.com/anthrozoopod
https://www.kissingsharks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZyC9YmMBM&t=22s
University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism
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’.
Writing and Cultural Studies, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Summary Children's literature; animal activism; environmental protection
Australian National University
Post Graduate Researcher and PhD Candidate in Anthrozoology
The University of Queensland, School of Architecture 2022
Summary I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning. My research is focused on human-built avian architecture. I research how humans intentionally build structures and environments to modify avian behaviours, and how it has made animals vulnerable to exploitation. My work is underpinned by cultural and material histories of birds that have shaped what birds mean to humans in architecture and industrial practice.
DECRA Fellow, Anthropology
Australian National University
PhD candidate in Fine Arts
Victoria College of The Arts, University of Melbourne
San Francisco State University
Victoria University of Wellington, School of Design Innovation
Visiting Lecture in Sociology and in Animal Welfare
Summary Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies
Independent film maker and writer
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.
Prosecutions Officer
Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Science, The University of Technology Sydney
Summary Animal law and science; Animal welfare
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
PhD (Animal Law) Candidate
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School
Anthrozoologist and host of the podcast The Deal with Animals
Associate Professor in Creative Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Summary Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
Summary Health and safety for racehorses
Summary Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics
Chair in Human-Centred Technology
University of Southern Queensland
Associate Professor in Visual Communication
University of Technology Sydney
Summary Storytelling, conservation, science communication, climate communication, visualisation
UTS/TAFE NSW Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion and Textile
Adjunct Institute for Culture and Society WSU and Independent Scholar
Western Sydney University
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Cinema Studies at Nagoya University
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Lecturer in Political Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
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.
University of Technology, Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
University of New England
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Summary Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships
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.
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 Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
Summary Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
Summary Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.
The University of Queensland
Summary Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations
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.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Summary Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of the Free State
Summary Michael is an animal historian interested in animals' subjective historical experiences.
Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS), emilie.crossley@elms.hokudai.ac.jp emilie.crossley@cats.hokudai.ac.jpHokkaido University
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.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Summary Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexual Violence Prevention
The University of Auckland
The University of the South Pacific
Lecturer in Law
School of Business and Law
Summary Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.
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
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.
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.
Summary Animal law, animal rights, human rights, environmental protection, international and comparative law
University of Adelaide and University of Nottingham
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.
Summary The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising
Independent Scholar
Aotearoa New Zealand
Summary Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism
SOLES, University of Sydney
Summary Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law
Lecturer, Level B
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Summary Animal Welfare; Canine Health.
Queensland University of Technology
Summary Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice
DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology
University of the Sunshine Coast
Lecturer, Environmental Science
School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University
Sessional Lecturer, adjunct researcher
Valdosta State University
RMIT University Melbourne
Adjunct, University of Technology Sydney; Research, University of Wollongong
Summary Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation
University of the Sunshine Coast
Swinburne University of Technology
Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation
University of Technology Sydney
University of Southern Queensland
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.
Summary PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning
Swinburne University of Technology
Summary Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice
Writer (fiction, poetry)
PhD Student at RMIT
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.
University of the Sunshine Coast
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Summary Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.
Southern Cross University
Summary The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Summary Creative writing, animal studies.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Summary Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.
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.
Summary Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals
Summary Animal welfare law and regulation
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
Summary Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)
Lecturer, Animation and Interactive Media
RMIT University, Melbourne
Summary art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality
Summary Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics
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.
RMIT University Melbourne
Summary Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation
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 Lecturer in International and Community Development
Summary Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
Summary Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection
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
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Summary Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
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
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)
Researcher and Director, EVER
Summary Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education
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
