Thank you to all our presenters and guests! A big thank you to all our sponsors (see our new sponsor page) and our fantastic workshop host, Gordon Meade!

Presenter Awards

Thanks to support from the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA), we were able to offer monetary prizes for four merit-based awards. The selection criteria for the AIP2024 awards were based on both delivery and alignment with our ethos. A goal of our conference is to promote less anthropocentric engagement with other-than-human animals and showcase research which embraces this.

The PhD Presenter Award recognises a PhD student with 100 AUD and a 1 year AASA membership. Two Pre-PhD Presenter Awards recognise students or graduates who have not yet started a PhD with 75 AUD and a 1 year AASA membership each. The Flash Talk Prize awards one presenter of a short talk with 75 AUD and a 1 year AASA membership.

Claire Musser, a PhD researcher with Falmouth University, UK, was awarded the AIP2024 PhD Presenter Award for her presentation entitled, “Bears in Hot Tubs: A Short Film About Learning to Coexist with the American Black Bear in LA”. 

朱文越 Zhu Wenyue, a master’s student from East China Normal University, China, was awarded one of the two AIP2024 Pre-PhD Presenter Awards for her presentation entitled, “The Art of Sympathy and Cruelty: A Comparative Analysis of Tactics in the Context of Rural Puppy Markets in Northern China”.

Camellia Schinner, a bachelor student from The New School, USA, was awarded one of the two AIP2024 Pre-PhD Presenter Awards for her presentation entitled, “A Survey of Increased Moral Consideration for Youth Livestock Project Animals”.

Astha Sharma, PhD researcher at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India, was awarded the AIP2024 Flash Talk Award for her short talk entitled, “Rethinking Animal Representation in Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ and Laura Jean McKay’s ‘The Animals in That Country’: A Comparative View”. 

Well done Claire, Zhu, Camellia, and Astha, and thank you to all the other wonderful presenters who shared their research and enthusiasm for anthrozoology. We hope we will be hearing more from you in the future!