Harms against nonhuman animals, vegan criminology

Vegan criminology is an innovative area of research, focusing on both the criminal and legal harms perpetrated against nonhuman animals. As such, it exemplifies the Social Policy & Criminology department’s focus on challenging and stretching criminology as a field of study. Areas of interest include:

• The harms of the animal-industrial complex
• Harmful representations of nonhuman animals
• Intersections between speciesism and intra-human oppressions
• The criminalisation of activism for nonhuman animals
• Anti-vegan discrimination and ‘vegaphobic’ stereotypes
• The experiences of vegan prisoners
• Veganism as anti-speciesist praxis
• The history of veganism

Postgraduate students would be warmly welcomed to research in any of these areas, or related topics, and play a key role in this new movement for nonhuman animals in criminology.

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English. 

Current/recent research projects

• How did we get here? The Organisation of Anthropocentrism, Melda Kelemcisoy

Potential supervisors

• Dr Matthew Cole
• Dr David Scott

Fees and funding

Some of our research students are funded via The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

Links

• Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University
• Innovation, Knowledge and Development
• Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
• Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice