• Katie is a geographer interested in animals, history, and society. She is particularly interested in birds, currently working with chickens and seabirds (in different projects!). Katie is excited to chair the AGWG and create spaces for animal geographers at all stages of their careers.

  • Hannah is a geographer whose work explores conservation ethics and practice, nonhuman labour, and ideas of Nature in the Anthropocene. She is currently developing a project on domestic infestations and is particularly interested in rats, mice, bedbugs, clothes moths and other pest species.  

  • Hannah is a geographer working across political-animal geography, political ecology and the blue humanities. Her research focuses on legal and illegal commodification of marine animals, and the role of ocean governance in shaping marine biodiversity conservation. She’s really excited to bring a ‘blue’ perspective to my role with the AGWG.

  • Kat works across environmental sociology, more-than-human geography and green (environmental) criminology. She is interested in understanding interrelations between human and more-than-human in contexts of food production and beyond. Her research expertise includes: inter- and transdisciplinary understandings of food production and consumption; industrially farmed animals; and environmental, ecological and multispecies justice. She is also interested in working with art and design methodologies.

  • Jessica Tacey is a PhD student in the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University. Jess investigates the behavioural drivers of human-elephant conflict in Southern Africa, using an individual differences approach to elucidate whether certain African elephants are more likely than others to come into conflict with humans over shared resources. Jess previously investigated socio-economic and ecological impacts of Orca depredation in sub-Antarctic fisheries at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. She is passionate about conservation outreach in schools, serving as an Environmental Education Officer for the Jane Goodall Institute. Jess is particularly interested in communicating research findings at a local scale alongside her collaborators.

  • Jamie is an ESRC Research Fellow interested in animal geographies, disability geographies, and ethnomethodology. Jamie has two work strands. First, examining care and training in assistance dog partnerships, and second, on the geographies of pet theft. For both Jamie’s research projects, they work collaboratively with geographers and other stakeholders across governmental and charity organisations. Jamie is interested in working on human-animal relations through video.

  • Jonny is a geographer interested in the more-than-human aspects of social, political, and economic life. Empirically, his work involves dogs and wolves in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, urban peregrine falcons in the UK, cows in Indian cities, beavers in Bavaria and London, and other species beyond. Based at the University of Oxford, his current research examines urban rewilding.