Flinders University of South Australia

Faculty Member, School of Social & Policy Studies

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Nik Taylor received her Ph.D  ‘Human-Animal Relations: A Sociological Respecification’, from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1999. Since then she has researched issues such as links between human and animal directed violence, and humane education and animal assisted therapy. Nik is the Managing Editor of Society & Animals; a charter scholar of the Animals and Society Institute; a participant in the Australian Animals Study group, and an Associate Member of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Nik is also an editorial board member of Anthrozoos, Sociology, and Sociological Research Online. Now a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University she has published numerous works on human-animal relations, the latest of which include, ‘Animal abuse and Criminology: the contribution and the challenge’ in Critical Criminology and ‘Can Sociology contribute to the emancipation of animals?’ in a co-edited volume entitled Theorizing Animals: Re-Thinking Humanimal Relations (Brill, 2011). Nik is also involved in grass roots work for animals, for example, in consulting with the DVConnect Qld over the establishment of a pet foster service for women and children entering refuges, and in the development of an interactive DVD addressing childhood cruelty to animals. This DVD, called ‘Happy Animals’, is now in use by various not for profit organisations throughout Australia.

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