Members

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

Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation

Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics

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.

Dog welfare; ethical dog acquisition, 'breed' and dog caretaking attitudes and discourses

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

Literary representations of animals, domestication and feminism

Writer (fiction, poetry)

Animal law and science; Animal welfare

Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection

Multi-species ethnography; animal biography

Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals

Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species History

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

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

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.

The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising

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.

The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.

My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity's relationship to the more-than-human world.

Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies

Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law

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

Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure

Creative writing, animal studies.

I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.

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

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.

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.

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

Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics

Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.

Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics

Animal health, illness and healing practices in society, with a focus on Tibet, Bhutan and the Indian subcontinent.

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

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

Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

Dr Zoei Sutton is a sociologist interested in critical, nonhuman animal-centric research.

Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics

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

Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)

Human conflicts regarding wildlife; macropod management in the Australian Capital Territory

Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.

Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.