Here is a collection of current and past research projects, interests and activities. In some cases, I provide more detail and you can click through via the images or underlined text segments. I will add more information and projects in due course.
Talks
In 2025, I am presenting the results of our work in intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) at conferences. I gave a talk about IIC and its role for Rights of Nature advocacy and discourse at the conference of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) and the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPEA) back in May, at the Griffith Ecocentre (Griffith University). My next talk is planned for the upcoming conference of the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) in November at USQ.
Intuitive Interspecies Communication
With our collective of animal communicators, InterspeciesTalk-TierGespräch, we provide animal communication for animals and their human companions, and we engage with IIC at the level of research. We also offer IIC to support the work of animal rescue, protection and conservation initiatives, and for nature and wildlife representation. We post on social media such as Instagram to educate and inform about our experiences with IIC as such, and about the potential of IIC for giving animals a voice in society and democratic decision-making processes.
A Panel on Sustainability and Animal Flourishing, AASA 2021 Conference
I co-convened a panel on the topic “Sustainability as a Promise of Flourishing in Light of the Animal Question” at the conference of Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) in 2021. As this conference took place online, we were delighted to welcome panelists from the UK and Sweden!
Interspecies Sustainability
I have been researching sustainability as a concept. It is important to realise that sustainability and sustainable development are conceptually and philosophically distinct notions. For clarity, I prefer the term interspecies sustainability, that is a notion of sustainability that foregrounds the protection and preservation of all life, of ecological systems and processes. For animals, interspecies sustainability means the protection, advancement and facilitation of self-determination, animal agency, animal integrity, ecological integrity, animal cultures, relationality, naturalness, multispecies justice, and animal political representation. These dimensions need to be brought to bear in theory and practice, to include animals in the sustainability transition.
Visual imagery in research, education and communication
I work with images
