PhDs by members of the AHSG
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 Completed, unpublished PhD theses are also listed in the bibliography.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 working on a PhD in this area, and would like your details to be included here, please email Rebecca.Tipper@manchester.ac.uk
Current PhDs
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
Veterinary expertise in the rural economy
Justin Armstrongr
Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK
Contact at: justin.armstrong@newcastle.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cre/people/profiles/jarmstrong.htm
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
Death and Dying in Human and Companion Canine Relations
Maria Desougi
Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, UK
Contact at: maria.desougi@stir.ac.uk
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
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
The Changing Place of Animals in Contemporary Spanish Society (c.1992-present) with Particular Reference to Bullfighting, Pets and Hunting Practices
Vibeke Hansen
University of Essex, UK
Contact at: vhanse@essex.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
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
A Global Foraging Adaptations to Holocene Climatic Optimum Environments: The Significance of Intentional Dog Burials as Evidence of Hunting Strategies.
Angela Perri
Zooarchaeology, University of Durham, UK
Contact at: a.r.perri@durham.ac.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/postgraduate/currentpg/?id=8405
Humanity, Nature and 'the Social' in Western Thought
Brendan Ruane
University of Essex, UK
Contact at: beejayruan1@hotmail.com
Living in a more-than-human world: ethics and politics in environmental discourse in India
Krithika Srinivasan
King’s College London, UK
Contact at: krithika.srinivasan@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/people/phd/enviro/krithika.html
Human-Animal Sociality in Suburban Homes and Gardens
Becky Tipper
Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Contact at: Rebecca.Tipper@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/people/students/tipper/index.html
Recently Completed PhDs
The Cultural Geographies of Pet-Keeping
Rebekah Fox
Geography, Royal Holloway, UK
Completed 2005
Contact at: r.fox@kingston.ac.uk
The Epidemiology of Behaviour Problems and Risk Factors for Poor Welfare in UK Leisure Horses
Joanna Hockenhull
Animal (Equine) Welfare (Biological Sciences), University of Chester, UK
Completed 2010
Contact at: j.hockenhull@chester.ac.uk
Human-Animal Interdependence in the Civilizing Process
Matthew McCormick
Sociology, University of Kent, UK
Contact at: mpm4@kent.ac.uk
Completed 2008
Destabilising the Discourse of Vivisection: A Foucauldian Archaeology/Genealogy of Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations
Neil McPherson
Sociology, Glasgow caldeonian University, UK
Completed 2010
Contact at: neil.mcpherson@uws.ac.uk
The Other of Culture: The Government of Nonhumans in the Organisation of Modernity: An Historical Case Study of the British Dairy Industry
Richie Nimmo
Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
Completed 2007
Contact at: RichieJNimmo@aol.com
Consumer risk reflections on organic and local food in Seattle, with reference to Newcastle upon Tyne [Note: focus on USDA regulation of organic dairy animals]
Bruce Scholten
Geography, University of Durham, UK
Completed 2008
Contact at: B.A.Scholten@durham.ac.uk
Over the Horizon: Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Andrew Shapland
UCL, UK
Completed 2009
Contact at: ashapland@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk