Children’s literature; animal activism; environmental protection

Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings

Intersectionality, animal and anti-colonial activism, Israel-Palestine, settler colonialism, ethnography, phenomenology

Posthumanist applied linguistics, feminist perspectives, and the representation of animals and birds in news media, science, and the arts

Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice

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

The co-evolution of humans and large carnivores and the interface between these species in contemporary societies.
The effects of large carnivores on processes of animal domestication, past and present.

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

Animal welfare law and regulation

Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief

Writer (fiction, poetry)

Animal law and science; Animal welfare

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.

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

Representation of animals in literature; animals and contemporary Australian poetry

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

Animal welfare science; companion animals

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.

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

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.

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 policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.

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.

Eco-criticism; eco-film; posthumanism; animal studies; animal and plant representation in Australian literature

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

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

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)

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.