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 Completed, unpublished PhD theses are also listed in the bibliography.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