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University of Technology Sydney
Discipline Leader, English Literature
University of the Sunshine Coast
Head of English Department
University of Canterbury
Summary: Elimination of factory farming; Expansion of humane education at all levels.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Summary: 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.
The University of Melbourne
Summary: Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics
Minding Animals International
Summary: Rod now helps steer Minding Animals International, which he founded in 2010 after the Newcastle conference.
RMIT University
Summary: Human-animal relationships in the intersection of sustainability studies, ecological thought and social change for sustainability
Law, University of Tasmania
Summary: Animal Welfare; Canine Health.
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Newcastle
Summary: Donkeys and their representation in human cultures
University of Wollongong
Summary: 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
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Summary: Empathy and the more than human world
Consultant Ophthalmologist
University of NSW
Summary: Animal law and science; Animal welfare
University of Technology, Sydney
Summary: 18th and 19th century literature, science and cultural history; natural history
Southern Cross University
Professor, Screen Studies
University of Melbourne
Summary: Human/Animal studies; contemporary film theory; surrealism; feminism; race and Darwinian theory; film and human rights.
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (History)
University of Newcastle
Summary: Environmental history
MCD University of Divinity in Melbourne
Summary: 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)
Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
Summary: Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species history
Research Fellow
Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine (VELIM), School of Public Health
University of Sydney
Summary: Population Health; Animal Ethics; Public Health Ethics.
Artist
Summary: Contemporary art and animals; animal-human reciprocal gaze; ethics, aesthetics and animal advocacy; representations of companion animals in art, representations of farm animals in art.
Sessional Lecturer, School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales
Law, University of Wollongong
Summary: The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.
Australian National University
Summary: Human-animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, Yolngu of East Arnhem Land, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
University of Sydney
Summary: The ethics of animal research; veterinary care for laboratory rodents.
Summary: Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies
Australian National University
Summary: Philosophy; Ethics; Animal Rights
Senior Lecturer, Philosophy
Western Sydney University
Summary: Animal and environmental ethics, assisting wild animals in need, animal rights extremism, the reporting of animal research in the media, and the ethical limits of veterinary expenditure
Independent
Summary: Grief and Bereavement, Wildlife care, Student education and supervision.
University of Adelaide
Summary: Teaching animal welfare and animal ethics to veterinary and animal science students.
Sessional Tutor in Law
Future PhD Candidate
Victoria University
Summary: Duties of Care in Law owed to Animals. Veterinary Law as it applies to laypersons
University of Sydney
Summary: Understanding of and responses to venomous animals and their toxins in Australia since European arrival.
Director of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne
Summary: Prof. Hoorn is an expert in the area of British and French colonial cultures in Australia, the Pacific and Africa.
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle
Summary: Recent work focuses on critical questions of nature-society delineation and aims to explore the active engagements of bodies, text, land and non-humans that shape Australian landscapes and everyday engagements with them
University of Sydney
Summary: Researching the nexus of animal studies and frameworks of postsecular analysis.
La Trobe University
Summary: Gender Studies; Animal Studies; Activism
Summary: Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Summary: Bats; animal language; plant sentience, and other evidence of non-human subjectivities
Writer, University of Technology Sydney
Summary: Dingo - human relationships
Summary: Animals in Western art; Domesticated animals; Human-Animal relations; Contemporary art, painting, installation; homeless animals and adoption
Senior Principal Research Scientist
Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW
Summary: Ecology; conservation biology; mammals; forests; threatened species; ecological history.
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne
Summary: Animal ethics; political philosophy; business ethics
Deputy Head of School, School of Arts
University of New England, NSW
Summary: Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline
PhD Candidate, ANU College of Law
Australian National University
Summary: Australia’s animal protection regime. The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.
Australian National University
Independent
Summary: Animals in sport, especially horses.
University of Wollongong
Summary: 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
Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney
Summary: Animal ethics, traditional medicines, cross-cultural ethics, intersectionality, traditional knowledge
Research Assistant & Steering Committee Member, Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network
University of Melbourne
Summary: Artist and animals' advocate working with imagery responding to the horrors of the dairy industry
Publishing Manager, Sydney University Press
University of Sydney
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Federation University Australia
Summary: animal advocacy, human-animal relations, sustainability
ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow
Deakin University
Summary: Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
Professor, Chair in Media Studies
La Trobe University
Summary: Sound/media artist and theorist
University of New South Wales
University of Adelaide
Summary: 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.
University of New South Wales
Summary: Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.
La Trobe University
Summary: Interested in ethically exploring and documenting the aesthetics of human-animal encounters and representing the animal ‘other’ in a non-anthropocentric manner.
Research Fellow
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
University of Wollongong
Summary: Research explores human-nonhuman relations, particularly those involving agriculture and food
Contemporary Artist and Independent Scholar
Independent
Summary: Animals in contemporary art
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Queen Mary University of London
Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts
University of Canterbury
Summary: Co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University
Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
Summary: Animal studies, ecocriticism, literary fiction.
Environmental anthropologist
Edith Cowan University
Summary: Australian public attitudes to animal welfare; digital media spaces
Philosophy, University of Wollongong
Summary: Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics
University of Wollongong
Summary: animal nationalism; activism; nonviolence; intersectionality
Summary: Nikki is currently conducting an ongoing ethnographic study of the complex relationships between mahouts and their elephants in a small tribal village in northeast Thailand.
University of Southern Queensland
Summary: Animals and live performance; Animals and tourism; Animal welfare
University of Melbourne
Summary: Examination of portrayals of women, non-human animals and plant life in contemporary literature.
University of Western Australia
Summary: Research into farm animal welfare, policy and practice.
Professor of Theatre and Drama
La Trobe University
Summary: Animal Studies; Animals in performance
Associate Professor (Geographies of Education and Childhood)
University of Canberra
Summary: More-than-human geographies of childhood.
Place-attuned and relational pedagogies. Feminist ecological humanities
University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary: Working to improve relations between humans and cetaceans
PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)
University of Sydney
Summary: 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
Australasian Bat Night Coordinator; Convenor Flying-fox subcommittee
Australasian Bat Society
Summary: Flying-fox management and community attitudes
Australian National University
Summary: Human conflicts regarding wildlife. Issues relating to the management of Eastern grey kangaroos in the Australian Capital Territory.
Lecturer Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
University of Sydney
Summary: Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Summary: 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.
University of Western Australia
Summary: Human attitudes toward wolves, dogs (Austria, Germany) and dingoes (Australia)
Lecturer, Griffith Law School
Griffith University
Summary: Animals, ethics and the law (especially animal welfare law).
Director, Voiceless
Honorary Research Associate, Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Newcastle
Summary: Deidre’s work has more recently focused on the application of the path-breaking sociology of ‘silence and denial’ to animal suffering, particularly in the meat and dairy industries.
RMIT University, Melbourne
Summary: Environmental humanities; Human-animal relations; Histories of the longue durée; contemporary issues of climate change and mass species extinction
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of New England
Summary: Multispecies ethnography, community gardens, mixed communities
Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geography and Environmental Studies)
University of Newcastle
PhD Candidate, Sessional Tutor
University of Tasmania
Summary: Companion bird welfare campaigner
MA (Animal Studies) student, Charles Sturt University
Part-time Teacher, Federation Training (Animal Studies/Companion Animal Services)
Summary: Horse training /welfare/ behaviour/ rehabilitative / classical dressage
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