Members

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

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

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.

Animal Welfare; Canine Health.

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

Writer (fiction, poetry)

Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection

Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals

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’.

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

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

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

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

Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies

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

Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter;
Patron, Help in Suffering Animal Shelter, Jaipur;
Assistant Editor, Australian Animal Protection Law Journal

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.