At CfHAS we welcome the opportunity to work with postgraduate students.
Supervision is available from CfHAS members.
Here is a list of our current and past postgraduate researchers and their projects:
PhD Researchers (7)
Felicity Silverthorne (2025 – ) Witnessing and weighing the cost: Uncovering the Emotional Burden of Animal Activism in Filmmaking (DoS: Professor Claire Parkinson, Supervisor: Dr Richard Twine)
Jesse Hill (2022 – )The Sabbats: Revolving Ecomedia Poetics’ (DoS: Professor Claire Parkinson)
Katherine Jones (2021 -) ‘Vegan Family Transition’ (DoS: Dr Claire Blennerhassett, Supervisor: Dr Richard Twine). GTA
Kerri Waters (2021 – p-t) ‘Farming Futures: A relational approach to surveying farmer’s attitudes towards transitioning away from animal farming’ (DoS: Dr Richard Twine, Supervisor: Professor Claire Parkinson)
Cameron Dunnett (2022 – 2025) ‘Vegan Men, Activism, and Ecomasculinities: Possibilities for masculine transformation among vegan activists’ (DoS: Dr Richard Twine, Supervisor: Professor Claire Parkinson). GTA.
Chris Fittock (2024 – ) ‘Towards a Disontological Dramaturgy’ (DoS: Dr. Lena Simic, Supervisors: Chris Green and Claire Parkinson)
Liam George Pope (2025 – ) ‘Gardens and Brontë literature’ (DoS: Dr Catherine Quirk. Supervsior: Professor Claire Parkinson)
Completed CfHAS PhDs (6)
Dr. Abi Masefield ‘FEEDing the World and the Right to not be Food’ (2016 – 2025 p-t) (Director of Studies: Dr Richard Twine, Supervisor: Prof. Claire Parkinson)
Dr. Bianca Friedman ‘The construction of the equine point of view: artistic strategies and theoretical implications in the intermedial and transmedial representation of equine characters’ (2021-2025) (DoS: Professor Claire Parkinson, Supervisor: Professor Martin McQuillan)
Dr. Donelle Gadenne ‘The workplace experiences of qualified veterinary professionals in the UK who identify as ethical vegans’ (DoS: Dr Richard Twine, Supervisor: Professor Claire Parkinson) GTA.
Dr. Andrea Ashworth ‘Dragonfly’ (DoS: Dr James Byrne, Supervisor: Professor Claire Parkinson)
Dr. Eva Marie Lindahl ‘Reframing the animal’ (DoS: Professor Claire Parkinson, Supervisor: Dr Alex Jukes)
Dr. Frances Burke ‘We are a farm but it’s not all about farming: Exploring the wellbeing potential of community farms in north-west England. (DoS: Dr. Victoria Foster, Supervisors: Barnaby King, Claire Dean & Kerri Andrews)
MRes Research
Hannah Howard ‘Feminism and Veganism: Synonymous or unaffiliated lifestyles?’ (2021-22) (DoS: Dr. Richard Twine, Supervisor: Dr. Paula Arcari). (Completed).
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