Claire Parkinson is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies, Associate Head of the Department of English and Creative Arts, and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK. Her research interests include visual culture, human/animal studies, gender, activism, and cultural history.
Claire’s publications include the books Popular Media and Animals (2011), Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism (2012), and Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters (2020). She has led funded research projects on public perceptions of veganism, multispecies storytelling and landscape decision-making, and public understanding of dogs and risk. Claire has published widely on a diverse range of topics such as celebrity vegan activism, animal stardom, pet death, Brexit and human-animal entanglements, animal cruelty on television, and wildlife films.
