Profiled Members

The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.

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.

Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection

Sociology of human-animal relations

I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice

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

Creature-inclusive theology that acknowledges the value and dignity of non-human creatures. Animal Theology, Pentecostal Theology and Pneumatology

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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’.

Children’s literature; animal activism; environmental protection

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.

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.

History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics;  Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation

Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics

Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships

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.

Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism

Ondine is the Co-founder and MD of Voiceless, author and PhD candidate at Sydney University focussing on pro-animal values.

Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation

Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexual Violence Prevention

Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.

Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the ‘New World’. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.

Animal law, animal rights, human rights, environmental protection, international and comparative law

Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism

Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law

Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice

Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.

PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning

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.

Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.

Creative writing, animal studies.

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.

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

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.

Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.

Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals

art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality

Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals

Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

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)

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