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Independent Researcher

Senior Lecturer

University of Technology Sydney

Discipline Leader, English Literature

University of the Sunshine Coast

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Armstrong, Philip. A/Professor

Head of English Department

University of Canterbury
Summary:

Elimination of factory farming; Expansion of humane education at all levels.

Baynes-Rock, Marcus

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.

PhD Candidate

The University of Melbourne

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Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics

Bennison, Dr Rod
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
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Animal Welfare; Canine Health.

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Bough, Dr Jill

Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Newcastle
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Donkeys and their representation in human cultures

University of Wollongong

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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

PhD Candidate

University of Sydney

Consultant Ophthalmologist

University of NSW
Summary:

Animal law and science; Animal welfare

Senior Lecturer

University of Sydney

Student

University of Technology, Sydney

Associate Professor

Monash University
Summary:

18th and 19th century literature, science and cultural history; natural history

Casual academic

Southern Cross University
Creed, Barbara. Professor

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
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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

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Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species history

Website/blog: Staff Profile

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.

Website/blog: Staff Profile
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.

Website/blog: www.barbaradover.com

Artist

Sessional Lecturer, School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales
Website/blog: www.micheleelliot.com
Law, University of Wollongong

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The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.

Fijn, Dr Natasha
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).

Website/blog: Staff Profile
University of Sydney
Summary:

The ethics of animal research; veterinary care for laboratory rodents.

Gadenne, Donelle

Independent Scholar

Summary:

Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies

Chief Executive Officer

Wellington SPCA

Social Worker

Lecturer

Australian National University
Summary:

Philosophy; Ethics; Animal Rights

Hadley, Dr John

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

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Independent
Summary:

Grief and Bereavement, Wildlife care, Student education and supervision.

Senior Lecturer

University of Adelaide
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Teaching animal welfare and animal ethics to veterinary and animal science students.

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Sessional Tutor in Law
Future PhD Candidate

Victoria University

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Summary:

Duties of Care in Law owed to Animals. Veterinary Law as it applies to laypersons

Department of History

University of Sydney
Summary:

Understanding of and responses to venomous animals and their toxins in Australia since European arrival.

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Hoorn, Jeanette. Professor

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.

Website/blog: Staff Profile

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

Website/blog: Staff Profile
University of Sydney
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Researching the nexus of animal studies and frameworks of postsecular analysis.

PhD Candidate

La Trobe University
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Gender Studies; Animal Studies; Activism

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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

University of Wollongong
Website/blog: Staff Profile
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
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Ecology; conservation biology; mammals; forests; threatened species; ecological history.

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne

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Animal ethics; political philosophy; business ethics

Deputy Head of School, School of Arts

University of New England, NSW
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Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline

Website/blog: Staff profile

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.

PhD Candidate

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

NHMRC PhD Candidate

Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney
Summary:

Animal ethics, traditional medicines, cross-cultural ethics, intersectionality, traditional knowledge

mowson, lynn

Research Assistant & Steering Committee Member, Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network

University of Melbourne

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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

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Professor, Chair in Media Studies

La Trobe University
Summary:

Sound/media artist and theorist

Artist
PhD Candidate

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.

O’Sullivan, Dr Siobhan

Lecturer

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.

Paterson, Dr Mandy

Principal Scientist

RSPCA Queensland
Phillips, Dr Catherine

Research Fellow
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)

University of Wollongong
Summary:

Research explores human-nonhuman relations, particularly those involving agriculture and food

Phillips, Dr Perdita

Contemporary Artist and Independent Scholar

Independent
Summary:

Animals in contemporary art

Pick, Dr Anat

Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

Queen Mary University of London
Summary:

Animals in Film

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Potts, Annie.  A/Professor

Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts

University of Canterbury

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Co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona.  A/Professor
Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney

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University of Melbourne
Summary:

Animal studies, ecocriticism, literary fiction.

Environmental anthropologist

Senior Lecturer

Edith Cowan University
Summary:

Australian public attitudes to animal welfare; digital media spaces

Russell, Dr Denise
Philosophy, University of Wollongong
Summary:

Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Research Fellow

University of Wollongong
Summary:

animal nationalism; activism; nonviolence; intersectionality

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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.

Senior Lecturer

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

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Research into farm animal welfare, policy and practice.

Tait, Peta. Professor

Professor of Theatre and Drama

La Trobe University
Summary:

Animal Studies; Animals in performance

Website/blog: Staff Profile

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

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Research Assistant

University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary:

Working to improve relations between humans and cetaceans

Taylor, Nik. A/Professor

Associate Professor

Flinders University

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PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)

University of Sydney

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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

Writer

Tasmania

PhD Candidate

Australian National University
Summary:

Human conflicts regarding wildlife. Issues relating to the management of Eastern grey kangaroos in the Australian Capital Territory.

Wadiwel, Dr Dinesh

Lecturer Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies

University of Sydney

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

Website/blog: Staff Profile
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
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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.

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Associate Professor

University of Western Australia
Summary:

Human attitudes toward wolves, dogs (Austria, Germany) and dingoes (Australia)

White, Steven

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

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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.

Associate Professor

RMIT University, Melbourne
Summary:

Environmental humanities; Human-animal relations; Histories of the longue durée; contemporary issues of climate change and mass species extinction

Website/blog: Staff Profile

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of New England
Summary:

Multispecies ethnography, community gardens, mixed communities

Website/blog: University Profile

Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geography and Environmental Studies)

University of Newcastle
Website/blog: Staff Profile

PhD Candidate, Sessional Tutor

University of Tasmania
Monash University

Bird/Parrot Behaviourist

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
training