Earlier in 2021, I was fortunate to be awarded one of eleven Wiley Digital Archive Fellowships. This fellowship grants access to the Royal Geographical Society’s pre-1945 digitised collections. The RGS, in collaboration with Wiley, have digitised hundreds of thousands of items, hosted on an online platform (the Wiley Digital Archive). In this, the first blogContinue reading “Royal Geographical Society Wiley Digital Archives Fellowship: Animals of the RGS”

A recording of a talk first given at the University of Cambridge Department of Geography Vital Geographies Research Group Seminar in December 2020 is now available on YouTube. In it, I discuss the ideas and research I will be doing on the next three years of Dr. Maan Barua’s European Research Council Funded ‘Urban Ecologies’Continue reading “Urban Chickens and Enmeshed Multispecies Lives Talk, December 2020.”

At the end of September, Steve (the wonderful host of beyond species podcast) reached out to me to be a guest on the second series of his podcast, which recently won a Vegfund grant to cover the costs of hosting and production. I spoke with Steve on the podcast in mid-October and this is nowContinue reading “beyond species podcast: vegan geographies and embodied politics”

In August, I presented a conference paper at the inaugural meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists, a newly formed group founded by Corey Wrenn and Zoei Sutton in 2020. The association is for sociologists ‘who recognize veganism and anti-speciesism as an ethical imperative in the discipline,’ and aims to provide transnational networking andContinue reading “‘Worldly Togetherness’: The inaugural meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists, 2020”

Earlier this year, the first paper from my PhD research was published in Emotion, Space and Society Journal as part of a special issue edited by Drs. Thom Davies, Tom Disney, and Elly Harrowell on Reclaiming failure in geography: academic honesty in a neoliberal world. The special issue features articles from geographers from across theContinue reading “Beyond-human research: Negotiating silence, anger & failure in multispecies worlds”

Whatever you feel about veganuary’s motives & methods, I think it’s important to try and foreground within this space of consumerism a critical and ethics-political perspective on veganism, especially to fight for a liberatory veganism for people, animals & the earth, in personal, collective and worldly imaginations of a transformed and transformative future. In thisContinue reading “Veganuary 2020”

A few weeks ago, I got in touch with The Vegan Society to chat about my PhD, their researcher support and network and to pitch some articles for publication on their website. I am very pleased to have joined their researcher network, and you can check out my profile here. It is a network openContinue reading “The Vegan Society Researcher Network”

The first publication from the ‘dis-belonging’ bodies project (with Amelia Morris) has recently come out in Gender, Place and Culture journal. It is available to read here. We are very pleased that this work has been published in this journal, whose aims align closely with our own academic research ethics and passions. The idea from thisContinue reading “(dis-)Belonging bodies: negotiating outsider-ness at academic conferences publication in Gender, Place and Culture Journal”