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.

Research interests:

• Critical Animal Studies; animal rights, suffering, and injustice
• Writing the animal
• Emotions in culture and society
• The embodiment of emotions in running
• Writing production processes
• Animal Feelings (e.g. despair and denial of animal exploitation; biodiversity loss; vegan fatigue)
• Environmental journalism practice and principles, especially animals and biodiversity
• Cognitive sciences and the media

Current Research Work:

Dr Shireen Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College Hospital, London with a specialist interest in the treatment of lymphoma.

Natalie Joelle is a prize-winning scholar and Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral researcher, creative and activist at Birkbeck, University of London publishing in the environmental humanities, vegan theory and research as practice.

A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on clinical nutrition. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in the defence of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous "meat defamation" trial. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller.