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Current PhDs

This page lists animal / human PhD projects which are currently being undertaken in the UK, or which have been completed recently. Click on the PhD titles to see the abstracts. Completed, unpublished PhD theses are also listed in the bibliography. If you are doing a PhD in this area, and would like your details to be included here, please email Rebecca.Tipper@manchester.ac.uk



Biopolitics of urban animality: The Pigeon

Fahim Amir
Institute for Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Contact at: fahim.amir@gmail.com


Making Meat: Symbiotic Relations Between People, Property and Pigs

Kim Baker
Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Contact at: kim@kimbakerresearch.co.uk
http://www.kimbakerresearch.co.uk

Untitled thesis

Elisabeth de Boisgelin
University of Wales - Lampeter, UK
Contact at:


Healing with Horses? A reflexive ethnography of young people ‘at risk’ participating in equine assisted therapy/learning

Hannah Burgon
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Contact at: hannahburgon@hotmail.com
www.sironacic.com

A Qualitative Study of Gender and Work in a British Riding School

Kate Calamatta
Sociology, University of Sussex, UK
Contact at: katecalamatta@gmail.com


Regulatory Science and Scientific Uncertainty in the Risk Management of Pesticide Residues

Rebecca Diggle
Science and Technology Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Contact at: lbxred1@nottingham.ac.uk


Business or Pleasure? An exploration of consumer and business-based experiences of the horse industry utilising case-study research

Karen Elliott
CAHHM, School for Health, Durham University, UK
Contact at: karen.elliott@durham.ac.uk

Pet-Keeping

Rebekah Fox
Geography, Royal Holloway, UK
Contact at: r.fox@kingston.ac.uk


A Critical Inquiry into the Construction and Contestation of Ecological Health: Public Health, Environment, Culture.

Maya Gislason
Sociology, University of Sussex, UK
Contact at: maya.gislason@gmail.com


Excavating Humanness; Palaeoanthropology at the Human-Animal Boundary

Murray Goulden
Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK
Contact at: lbxmg@nottingham.ac.uk


Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainability

Alison Hodge
Geography, University of Exeter, UK
Contact at: ah265@exeter.ac.uk


Children’s attitudes to and acquisition of knowledge about farm animal welfare

Jen Jamieson
RVC, London, UK
Contact at: jjamieson@rvc.ac.uk
http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Staff/jjamieson.cfm

Ethical Review Processes in Biomedical Research Using Animals

Kathleen Job
Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK
Contact at: lbxkj@nottingham.ac.uk

Human-Animal Interdependence in the Civilizing Process

Matthew McCormick
Sociology, University of Kent, UK
Contact at: mpm4@kent.ac.uk


A Sociological Deconstruction of the Discursive Formations of Vivisection in the UK

Neil McPherson
Sociology, Glasgow caldeonian University , UK
Contact at: neil.g.mcpherson@gmail.com


The Other of Culture: The Government of Nonhumans in the Organisation ofModernity: An Historical Case Study of the British Dairy Industry

Richie Nimmo
Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Contact at: RichieJNimmo@aol.com


Mind-Body Spaces of Human-Animal Communication: A Socio-Spatial Study of the 'Disabled' and 'Non-Disabled' Horse-rider

Cheryl Nosworthy
Human geography, University of Reading, UK
Contact at: c.c.nosworthy@reading.ac.uk


’Wild’ food networks and sustainable rural development in England

Robert Riminton
Geography, University of Nottingham, UK
Contact at: lgxrr3@nottingham.ac.uk


Humanity, Nature and 'the Social' in Western Thought

Brendan Ruane
University of Essex, UK
Contact at: beejayruan1@hotmail.com


Over the Horizon: Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete

Andrew Shapland
UCL, UK
Contact at: ashapland@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk


Human-Animal Sociality in Suburban Homes and Gardens

Becky Tipper
Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Contact at: Rebecca.Tipper@manchester.ac.uk