Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings
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
Independent Scholar
Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection
Adjunct (ECR)
Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief
Lecturer, Environmental Science
Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute
Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities
DECRA Fellow, Anthropology
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 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.
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
Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities
Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies
Doctoral Student
Sessional Academic
Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations
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 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
Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development
Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
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.
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.
Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.
Teacher/Researcher
Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.
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.
Assistant Professor
Head of School, School of Creative Arts
Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
Subject Coordinator, tutor and supervisor
Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
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
Lecturer
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)
Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
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.
Lecturer
Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice
Research Program Leader
Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.