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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 within the last two years. 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 Completed, unpublished PhD theses are also listed in the bibliography.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

Equine Assisted Therapy

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


Pet-Keeping

Rebekah Fox
Geography, Royal Holloway, UK
Contact at: rebekah.fox@rhul.ac.uk


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


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


The Significance of Gardens and Gardening in Older People's Lives

Sally Richards
University of Coventry, UK
Contact at: sallyrichards_98@yahoo.co.uk


Humanity, Nature and 'the Social' in Western Thought

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


Human-Animal Sociability in Suburban Homes and Gardens

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