Richard J. White is a Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Natural and Built Environment 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.

My research is interdisciplinary, engaging with animal studies, cultural studies, critical theory, history of ideas, philosophy, game studies, English studies, media studies, film studies, and the conceptual dimensions of other fields. To date, I have pursued research into three related domains:

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.