Editors
Dr Laëtitia Maréchal is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Lincoln (UK), with a multidisciplinary background from Social and Life Sciences, including Psychology, Ethology, Endocrinology, Socio-Ecology, Primatology and Social Anthropology. Her research applies the One Health/One Welfare approach to better understand interspecific interactions. She is also a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Primate Specialist Group Section for Human–Primate Interactions. Link to her website here.
Dr Emile van der Zee is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Lincoln (UK). He has published numerous books on language and published several articles and book chapters related to animal communication. He designed a popular course titled ‘Psychology of Human–
Animal Interaction’, which inspired this book. Link to his website here.
Authors
Naeem Abbas is experienced community development and public policy expert at the Brooke Hospital for Animals (Pakistan), currently working as advocacy manager with Brooke Pakistan. In his current role, he is working with government and civil society organisations to create enabling environment for animal welfare. His specialties are: policy reform, community engagement, research (qualitative and quantitative, participatory and action research), PRA/participatory learning for action methodologies, logical framework approach, project cycle management, and
strategy creation.
Dr Ana Maria Barcelos is postdoctoral researcher and guest Lecturer in human–animal interaction and human mental health at the University of Lincoln (UK), with a strong research background in the effects of pet ownership on owners’ well-being. In addition, she is a veterinarian and the
president of the Brazilian Association of Veterinary Behaviourists. Thus, she also investigates animal behaviour and the impact of human–animal interactions on animal welfare.
Dr Ross M. Bartels is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and leads the Forensic and Crime Research Group at the University of Lincoln (UK). His research focuses on understanding atypical sexual interests, the psychology of sexual fantasising, and offence-supportive cognitions within forensic and community populations. Ross has published numerous papers and book chapters, has co-edited two books on sexual deviance, and regularly presents at forensic conferences.
Dr Victoria Brelsford is Associate Lecturer in Psychology with an interdisciplinary background in early childhood development and human–animal interaction (HAI) research at the University of Lincoln (UK), including the effect of companion animals on cognition, physiological processing, and humans’ understanding of canine stress signalling behaviour. She is passionate about promoting the welfare of all animals and teaching the critical importance of this to both children and adults.
Dr Giovanna Capponi is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton (UK). She is trained as a social anthropologist with a particular interest in environmental anthropology, human–animal studies and more-than-human ontologies. She conducted research on animal
sacrifice in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion, on wild boar management and human– wildlife conflicts in Italy, and she is currently working on feral cat colonies in urban settings.
Justine Cole graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Animal Biology Honours Program from the University of British Columbia (Canada). Justine’s previous research has focused on zoo animals, wildlife and on highlighting the largely overlooked role that human–animal
interactions play in both animal welfare and human well-being.
Prof Grahame J. Coleman is Professor in Psychology at the University of Melbourne (Australia), conducting research on public attitudes to farm and companion animal welfare and research into the effects of human–animal interactions on farm animal welfare. He has also focused on the
development of cognitive-behavioural interventions to change human attitudes and behaviour leading to improved production and welfare outcomes for farm animals.
Dr Mirena Dimolareva is Lecturer in Educational Psychology with a background in child development and animal–assisted intervention research at the University of Lincoln (UK). She is interested in how we can adapt animal-assisted interventions for different groups of people within our society, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds or with additional needs.
Dr Georgina Gous is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Lincoln (UK). She specialises in research at the pre-conviction stage of the criminal justice process, with such work including the use of voice disguise, leading questions in court, witness preparation
techniques, the safeguarding of vulnerable witnesses, jury decision-making, and the reducing of juror biases. Georgina has published numerous research articles and contributed to several book chapters.
Prof Kun Guo is Professor in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Lincoln (UK). He combines behavioural, physiological, neuroimaging and computational approaches to study social attention and affective vision (e.g., face and body perception, emotion) in both humans and non-human animals. Since 2009, his group has pioneered a range of neuroscientific methods (psychophysics, eye-tracking) to study how humans and dogs read each other’s emotions and human–dog interaction.
Dr Roxanne Hawkins is Lecturer in Applied Psychology at the University of Edinburgh (UK). She is a multidisciplinary researcher with expertise in human–animal interactions, with a focus on mental health implications of attachment to pets, animals within adversity, risk and resilience,
animal welfare, and prevention and intervention strategies for animal cruelty prevention. She works with external organisations such as animal welfare charities and participates in a range of public engagement activities.
Prof Paul H. Hemsworth is Professor at the University of Melbourne (Australia). His two main research programmes have focused on the effects of (1) the human–animal relationship on the welfare of farm, zoo and companion animals and (2) housing and husbandry practices on the welfare
of farm animals. He has published more than 250 refereed journal articles, 35 chapters in internationally distributed books and one book on animal behaviour and welfare.
Prof Catherine M. Hill is Professor in Anthropology at the Oxford Brookes University (UK), with a multidisciplinary background in Zoology, Psychology and Anthropology. In her research she adopts a biosocial approach to explore conflicts around wildlife and human–wildlife coexistence. She is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) SSC Human–Wildlife Conflict & Coexistence Specialist Group and the IUCN Primate Specialist Group Section for Human–Primate Interactions.
Laura Kavata Kimwele is experienced technical specialist in the field of community development at the Brooke Hospital for Animals (East Africa). She has worked with local and international organisations on livelihood, resilience, food security, climate change and animal welfare in the past 16 years, with valuable experience on project planning and management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Community Development, Daystar University, and is pursuing a Master of Project Planning and Management, University of Nairobi (Kenya).
Dr Meagan King is Assistant Professor in Animal Welfare, with a background in Environmental Biology and Animal Welfare and Behaviour at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She has mostly studied dairy cow health and welfare in robotic milking herds. Most recently, she surveyed dairy farmer mental health and how it is linked with animal health and farm management. She has also worked with piglets, wildlife, fish and zooplankton.
Dr Tracie McKinney is Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of South Wales (UK), with a focus on primate ecology, behaviour and conservation. Her research uses an ethnoprimatology framework to explore ways humans and non-human primates interact, in situations such as tourism, crop feeding and forest fragmentation. She is a member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group Section for Human–Primate Interactions.
Prof Kerstin Meints is Professor in Developmental Psychology, and Suffrage Women in Science Award holder at the University of Lincoln (UK). Her research spans children’s development, with a focus on cognition and language as well as human–animal interaction, especially dog bite prevention and animal-assisted interventions. As director of the Lincoln Infant and Child Development Lab, head of Lincoln Education Assistance with Dogs (lead.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk), head of the Development and Behaviour Research group and Autism Research and Innovation Centre member, she encourages interdisciplinary research.
Prof Ben Mepham is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham (UK), he established the Centre for Applied Bioethics, a teaching and research institute in 1993. He was director of the Food Ethics Council (1998–2005), appointed to the UK Government Biotechnology
Commission (2000–2005), is co-founder of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (appointed Life member on retirement), and is a member of several related European Union and UK committees. His Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences (2005 and 2nd edition 2008) and other books (e.g., Food Ethics) have won significant acclaim.
Prof Angus Nurse is Professor of Law and Environmental Justice at Anglia Ruskin University (UK), with research interests in green criminology, criminality, critical criminal justice, animal rights and human rights law. He is a member of the Wild Animal Welfare Committee (WAWC)
and co-chair of the Wildlife Working Group for the UK Centre for Animal Law. His books include Policing Wildlife (2015) and Animal Harm (2013).
Dr Ricardo R. Ontillera-Sánchez is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton (UK). He is trained as a biologist and social anthropologist with a particular interest in human– animal studies. He conducted research on transhumance in mainland Spain, and he is currently
the principal investigator of an ESRC-funded project (ES/W006472/1) which studies the cultural constructions of fighting birds and fighting bulls in the Canary Islands and Andalusia (Spain).
Daniela Pörtl, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and neurologist working as a senior consultant in the Department of Psychiatry, SRH Hospital Naumburg, teaching hospital of Jena and as well in my psychotherapeutic practice at the Leipzig Universities, Leipzig, Germany,
with a multidisciplinary background from Neurobiology, Epigenetics Endocrinology and Social Anthropology. Her scientific work is about self-domestication processes, dog domestication, language evolution and epigenetic modulations in the brain due to prosocial behaviour and
stress.
Dr Melanie Ramasawmy is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University College London (UK) with a multidisciplinary background including Social Anthropology and Life Sciences, and experience in health and social care policy. She carried out ethnographic research on gender
and agriculture in rural Ethiopia as part of her doctoral and postdoctoral research. Her current research uses mixed methods to understand inequalities in digital health.
Dr Rie Usui 笛吹 理絵 is Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan with a multidisciplinary background in ecology, anthropology, primatology and geography. Her main research interests lie in the overlapping area of tourism and human–animal studies. Her current research project focuses on the cases of liminal animals, such as feral rabbits and cats, that have become a tourism attraction.
Dr Shelly Volsche is an Assistant Professor in Animal and Food Science at University of Wisconsin – River Falls (USA), working with students in the Companion Animal Science and Management emphasis. Her research and teaching focus on companion animal behavior and training, the role of pets in our world, and the coevolution of humans and dogs. She is a member of the International Society for Anthrozoology and the International Society for Applied Ethology.
Dr Jennifer Wathan is Global Animal Welfare Adviser at Brooke, Action for Working Horses and Donkeys (UK), an international animal welfare charity operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Experienced in research, psychology and human behaviour change, she
utilises a One Health/One Welfare approach that recognises the complex interaction between working animals, the communities who depend upon them, and the environment within which people and animals coexist.
Dr Eva Zoubek is a multidisciplinary researcher who studied the small-scale chicken keeping culture in Britain and the human–animal relationships within this context as part of her doctoral studies from the University of Roehampton (UK). Previously, she studied environmental studies
in Vienna and environment–human relationships at the University College London Department of Geography.