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RAC member, Dr Eva Giraud, reviews The European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS) conference.

Richard J. White is an Emeritus Fellow in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Greatly influenced by anarchist praxis, his main research agenda explores a range of ethical, economic and activist landscapes rooted in questions of social and spatial justice.

Kim Stallwood is an animal rights author and independent scholar with more than 45 years of personal commitment as a vegan and professional experience in leadership positions. The British Library acquired the Kim Stallwood Archive in 2020. He is a consultant with Tier im Recht, the Zurich-based animal law organization, on projects preserving animal rights history, including acquiring his library. He is writing the biography of Topsy, the female Asian elephant electrocuted to death on Coney Island, New York, in 1903.

Richard previously worked at the Institute of Education, University of London; and for ten years at Lancaster University, where he was a researcher with the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen). His research interests take place at the nexus of gender studies, human/animal relations, science studies and environmental Sociology. Much current research focuses upon the issue of sustainable food transitions in the context of climate change.

Professor of Sociology in the Centre for European and International Studies Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.  

Dr Jeanette Rowley is a consultant leading authority on veganism and law and has led the promotion of the legal rights of vegans for over a decade. She is the founder and chair of The Vegan Society’s International Rights Network (formerly The International Vegan Rights Alliance established in 2012). She manages The Vegan Society’s rights, and advocacy service and recently introduced The Vegan Society’s education function to promote a rights-based approach to much-needed vegan-inclusive education for all pupils.

Kay joined the Kingston University in 2016. Previously she held positions at the University of Warwick (as Research Fellow in Sociology), University of Portsmouth (most recently as a Reader in Sociology) and the University of Winchester. Kay is a sociologist who has longstanding research interests in critical sociology and social theory. Her current research addresses the persistence of complex inequalities associated with species.

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. 

I have a sociology / critical cultural studies background and my area of professional expertise (over thirty years experience) relates to the 'international development' agenda – in particular analysis of food injustice and the resulting outcomes of malnutrition (which can take many forms). Not surprisingly the agenda is dominated by an emphasis on technical and reductionist assessment, diagnosis and treatment rather than focusing on political dynamics and inequality.

Literature in English since 1945 with a focus on the representation of animals and animal ethics.

My research focuses on the representation of animals and the ethics of human-animal relations in literature, film and culture since 1945. My first degree was in English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. I then came to Sheffield to study for an MA in Narrative and completed a PhD here in 2004. I have taught in the School of English since then.

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