Research interests / activities Dr. Nik Taylor is a critical and public sociologist whose research focuses on mechanisms of power and marginalisation expressed in/through human relations with other species and is informed by critical/ intersectional feminism. Nik currently works at the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand where she is co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies and teaches topics in the Human Services and Social Work program that focus on human-animal violence links; scholar-advocacy; social change, and crime and deviance, particularly domestic violence and animal abuse
Potential areas for collaboration sociology of human-animal relations; links between animal and human abuse and violence (including domestic violence, child abuse and animal cruelty); meat-eating and animal slaughter; animal rights; critical animal studies; ecofeminism and animal liberation.