Members

Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings

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.

Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism

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

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

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)

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

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.

Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.

Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education

Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation

Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations

Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism

Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline

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

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

Animals in Indigenous rock art; animals and social identity; decolonising taxonomic identification; ethology.

The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing

Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning

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.

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

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

Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics

Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies

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)

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

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