Prospective PhD researchers
I am
available to
supervise PhD candidates at the Department of History, Geography and
Social Sciences and the
Centre for Human/Animal Studies at Edge Hill University (Lancashire,
UK) in
the
following areas:
- Sociological
approaches
to
understanding climate change,
especially in relation to
food practices, gender and/or childhood. I would also be very
interested in supervising work in relation to the concept of the
Capitalocene.
- Gender studies
- broadly construed, but especially environmental dimensions
(ecofeminism), and
projects related to a critical/feminist focus on (eco)masculinities.
Also
gendered dimensions of bodily aesthetics e.g. intersections of the
sociology of the body and gender studies.
- Critical
Animal Studies e.g. sociology of human/animal
relations, especially the political economy of the animal
agri industries, examinations of the animal-industrial complex and the
sociology of veganism / vegan studies. I am also interested in
environmental education, climate
and animals ethics education for children.
Current PhD students
- Kerri Waters
'Agriculture Beyond the Animal: Justice in a contested and changing
landscape' (Edge Hill University, 2021-) DoS
- Felicity
Silverthorne
'Witnessing and weighing the cost: Uncovering the
Emotional Burden of Animal Activism in Filmmaking' (Edge Hill University
2025-) 2nd Supervisor
Completed PhD students
-
Dr. Cameron Dunnett 'Men, masculinities and intersectional power hierarchies within the UK vegan and animal liberation movement' (2022 - 2026)
-
Dr. Katherine Jones '"I just wish more people would look into it” –An exploratory study of familial transitions to vegan diets' (2021 - 2026).
-
Dr. Abi Masefield 'Cannibal Nutrition: Tracking the Animal Across the
Discursive Landscape of Human Hunger (Edge Hill
University, 2016 - 2024 p-t)
- Dr. Donelle Gadenne 'Veganism
and the Veterinary Profession: An Incongruous Union? The Experiences of
Vegan Veterinary Professionals Working in Small Animal Veterinary
Practice in England' (Edge Hill University 2018-2021)
- Dr. Carmel Nolan
'Xenotransplantation ‘Politics’ from the Perspective of Lay Publics in
Ireland’ (Lancaster University, 2012)
Examined PhDs
- Aranceta
Reboredo, Olatz. ‘Compassion in (S)pain: how interest groups contribute to the
perpetuation of animal captivity and exhibition’. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain – External Examiner) 2025.
- Burns,
Reece. ‘Ecocide and Temporal Complicity: The Influence of Huttonian Deep Time
and Heideggerian Temporality on Planetary Degradation’ (EHU –
Internal Examiner) 2025.
- Grassian, Trent. ‘A New Way of Eating: Creating Meat Reducers,
Vegetarians and Vegans’ (University of Kent – External Examiner) 2018
- Robinson,
Frances. ‘Animal Experimentation,
Complexity and Environmental Ethics’ (Lancaster
University - Internal Examiner) 2009
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