Research interests / activities Peter Chen teaches media politics, public policy and Australian politics at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests focus on the relationship between media and politics: with a special interest in new media's impacts on electoral politics, media regulation, social movements, and the politics of animal protection.
Peter has been working on a policy "domain" study of the practices and process of policy making in Australia associated with animal protection and welfare since 2012. This research, involving a mixed methods approach to examining the policy making space and relations involving a wide array of actors, was published by Sydney University Press as Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy in October 2016. http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/animalwelfareinaus
Outputs Chen, O'Sullivan and Pyke (2023) 'Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 1-24. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8500.12625
Chen, Peter John (2020) ‘It’s the Outline of a Pig and then it has the Words Underneath, “Vegan for Life”’: Vegans and their Tattoos. Animal studies journal 9(2).
Chen, P. (2017). Animal welfare officers in Australian higher education: 3R application, work contexts, and risk perception. Laboratory Animals, 51(6), 636-646. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0023677217705152
Chen, P. (2016). Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy. Sydney: Sydney University Press. https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/17255
