Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Posthumanist applied linguistics, feminist perspectives, and the representation of animals and birds in news media, science, and the arts
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.
Senior Lecturer, English Literature
Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice
Professor of English
Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation
Independent Scholar
Animal law, animal rights, human rights, environmental protection, international and comparative law
Sessional Lecturer, adjunct researcher
Anthrozoologist and host of the podcast The Deal with Animals
PhD Candidate
Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics
Independent Scholar
Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection
Researcher
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.
Lecturer, Level B
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Animal Welfare; Canine Health.
Independent Scholar
Aotearoa New Zealand
Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism
Senior Research Fellow
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
PhD Candidate
Animal welfare law and regulation
Independent Scholar
Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation
Adjunct (ECR)
Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief
Graduate Student
Literary representations of animals, domestication and feminism
Lecturer, Environmental Science
Writer (fiction, poetry)
PhD Student at RMIT
Writer (fiction, poetry)
Prosecutions Officer
Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Science, The University of Technology Sydney
Animal law and science; Animal welfare
Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute
Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities
DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology
Senior Lecturer
Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection
Senior Research Fellow
Doctor of Creative Arts
Dr Ellie Coleman is an installation artist who is passionate about practice-led research and animal ethics particularly in contemporary art.
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Masters student, University of Divinity
Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
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
Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning
Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species History
Associate Lecturer, UNSW Art + Design
Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the 'New World'. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.
DECRA Fellow, Anthropology
Visiting Fellow
Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice
Research Fellow
Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.
Course Coordinator of Master of Social Work Program
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.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships
Adjunct Researcher
The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising
Visiting Lecture in Sociology and in Animal Welfare
Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies
Fiction Writer (Independant)
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.
PhD Candidate
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.
Adjunct Lecturer
The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.
I have many roles: academic, student, research assistant, editor, dog-human, ecofeminist
My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity's relationship to the more-than-human world.
PhD Candidate
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexual Violence Prevention
Senior policy researcher
Lecturer
Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law
Independent Scholar
Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.
Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies
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
Independent Scholar
Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education
Professor of English and Associate Dean Research
Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies
Writer/Researcher/Editor
Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation
Doctoral Student
Associate Professor
Lecturer, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations
PhD Candidate
Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism
Adjunct Professor
Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure
Deputy Head of School, School of Arts
Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline
Lecturer in Law
School of Business and Law
Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Creative writing, animal studies.
PhD Candidate
I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lecturer in Political Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
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
Lecturer, Animation and Interactive Media
art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality
Forrest Foundation PhD Scholar
Animals in Indigenous rock art; animals and social identity; decolonising taxonomic identification; ethology.
Vice-chair, Australasian Animal Studies Association
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.
Lecturer
The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing
Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development
Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
Honorary Professorial Fellow, VCA; Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals
Senior Researcher, School of Social & Policy Studies
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.
Senior Lecturer
Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.
Professor of Law
Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.
Principal Scientist
Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Animals, an open access journal
Historian
Independent Scholar
Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics
Professor and Cultural Studies Programme Coordinator, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts
Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Independent researcher
Senior Lecturer
Teacher/Researcher
Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.
Bachelor of Sculpture and Spatial Practice, 3rd year
I am a 24 year old artist and writer living in lutruwita/Tasmania. I am passionate about human/animal ethics, contemporary animal philosophy and visual art surrounding the topic of animals, to which my practice as a whole is devoted.
Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant (Theology)
Creature-inclusive theology that acknowledges the value and dignity of non-human creatures. Animal Theology, Pentecostal Theology and Pneumatology
Senior Lecturer
Honorary Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies
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.
Independent researcher
Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics
PhD Candidate
Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism
Assistant Professor
Head of School, School of Creative Arts
Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
Co-founder and Managing Director of Voiceless,
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney
Ondine is the Co-founder and MD of Voiceless, author and PhD candidate at Sydney University focussing on pro-animal values.
Subject Coordinator, tutor and supervisor
Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
Research Officer, The University of Adelaide
Co-founder, International Association of Vegan Sociologists
Sociology & Animals Thematic Group Co-convener, The Australian Sociological Association
Book Review Editor, Society & Animals Journal
Dr Zoei Sutton is a sociologist interested in critical, nonhuman animal-centric research.
EASE working group
Independent researcher
Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics
Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter;
Patron, Help in Suffering Animal Shelter, Jaipur;
Assistant Editor, Australian Animal Protection Law Journal
PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)
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
Independent scholar
Lecturer
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)
Associate Lecturer
PhD Candidate
Human conflicts regarding wildlife; macropod management in the Australian Capital Territory
Early Career Researcher
History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics; Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Senior Lecturer, Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
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.
Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School
Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Fellow with Project Air
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Professor
Independent film maker and writer
Independent scholar
Nikki is interested in the use of more ethical forms of tourism to improve the welfare and conservation of Thailand’s captive elephants.
Research Program Leader
Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.
Emeritus Professor
Doctoral Candidate – Doctor of Philosophy, specialization in Environmental Education