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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

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

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

Research interests / activities

• Cultural theory (post-structuralism, deconstruction, posthumanism)
• Continental philosophy (Derrida, Foucault, Arendt, Lyotard, Hegel and Nietzsche)
• Biopolitics, political philosophy, animal politics
• Environmental humanities, ecoculture and philosophical ethology

Current research projects

• Living Together: New Approaches to Multispecies Conflict and Coexistence (with Matthew Chrulew, Dinesh Wadiwel, Thom van Dooren, Jacqueline Dalziell, Dominique Lestel)
• On the Specific Existence of Animal Culture
• The Forms and Limits of the Concept of the Political: A Speculative Genealogy

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

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

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

Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.

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

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.

Animal Welfare; Canine Health.

Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation

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

Writer (fiction, poetry)

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

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

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

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

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

Animal welfare law and regulation

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

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

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

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