Flinders University
Dr Nik Taylor
Dr
Nik
Taylor
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/nik.taylor
| Position/s: | Director of Studies Sociology |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012491 |
| Email: | nik.taylor@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences North (311) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Teaching
Teaching interests
The sociology of human-animal interactions; Green criminology; Violence; Sociology of media; Social theory; Research methods and ethics
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- Sociology
Research interests
Human-animal interaction and relationships;
Links between domestic violence, child abuse and violence to companion animals;
Deviance and animal abuse;
Sociology of human-animal interactions;
Social theory, animals and the environment.
Supervisory interests
- Animal-human relations
RHD research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor:
Human-Animal relations and disasters (1);
International Medical Graduates (1);
Completion
Principal supervisor:
Youth camps and religion (1);
Publications
Book chapters
Taylor, N. (2011). Can Sociology Contribute to the Emancipation of Animals? In Nik Taylor and Tania Signal, ed. Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, pp. 201-220. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004202429.i-294.51.
Taylor, N. (2011). Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject. In Rob Boddice, ed. Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 265-279. [online]. Available from: http://www.brill.nl/anthropocentrism.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). An overview of the research. In Linzey, A, ed. The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 297-301.
Taylor, N. and Kearney, J. (2006). The impact of sibling substance misuse on children and young people. In Fiona Harbin, Michael Murphy, ed. Secret lives: Growing with substance?: working with children and young people affected by familial substance misuse. Lyme Regis, UK: Russell House Publishing, pp. 126-137.
Refereed journal articles
Taylor, N. (2010). Animal shelter emotion management: a case of in situ hegemonic resistance? Sociology, 44(1), pp.85-101. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038509351629.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). Pet, pest, profit: isolating differences in attitudes towards the treatment of animals. Anthrozoos, 22(2), pp.129-135. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303709X434158.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). "Lock "em up and throw away the key?" Community opinions regarding current animal abuse penalties". Australian Animal Protection Law Journal, (3), pp.33-52. [online]. Available from: http://www.voiceless.org.au/News/Animal_Law_News/Australias_First_Animal_Law_Protection_Journal_now_in_print.html.
Arbour, R., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2009). Teaching kindness?: the promise of humane education. Society & Animals, 17(2), pp.136-148. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853009X418073.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). Willingness to pay?: Australian consumers and "on the farm" welfare. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 12(4), pp.345-359. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888700903163658.
Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2008). Propensity to report intimate partner violence in Australia: community demographics. Behavior and Social Issues, 17(1), pp.8-19.
Books
hamilton, lindsay and Taylor, N. (2013). Animals at Work: Identity, Politics and Culture in Work with Animals. Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. [online]. Available from: http://www.brill.com/animals-work.
Taylor, N. (2013). Humans, Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies. New York: Lantern Books.
Book chapters
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2013). Animal cruelty and delinquency and criminality. In Brewster, M., & Reyes, C, ed. Animal Cruelty and the Criminal Justice System. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Taylor, N. (2012). Animals, method, mess: Post-humanism, Sociology and animal studies. In L Birke & J Hockenhull, ed. Crossing Boundaries. Boston, USA: Brill, pp. 37-50.
Taylor, N. (2011). Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject. In Rob Boddice, ed. Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 265-279. [online]. Available from: http://www.brill.nl/anthropocentrism.
Taylor, N. (2011). Thinking about animals. In Nik Taylor and Tania Signal, ed. Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, pp. 1-17. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004202429.i-294.8.
Taylor, N. (2011). Can Sociology Contribute to the Emancipation of Animals? In Nik Taylor and Tania Signal, ed. Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, pp. 201-220. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004202429.i-294.51.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). An overview of the research. In Linzey, A, ed. The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 297-301.
Taylor, N. and Kearney, J. (2006). The impact of sibling substance misuse on children and young people. In Fiona Harbin, Michael Murphy, ed. Secret lives: Growing with substance?: working with children and young people affected by familial substance misuse. Lyme Regis, UK: Russell House Publishing, pp. 126-137.
Refereed journal articles
Kemp, K., Signal, T., Botros, H., Taylor, N. and Prentice, K. (2013). Equine Facilitated Therapy with Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: A Program Evaluation Study. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2013(January). [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9718-1.
Richards, E., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2013). A Different Cut? Comparing Attitudes toward Animals and Propensity for Aggression within Two Primary Industry Cohortsâ?"Farmers and Meatworkers. Society & Animals, (1), pp.1-19.
Prentice, K., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2012). What's the buzz?: Bumblebees - a therapeutic preschool for abused children. Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 4(1), pp.11-21. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=657435367108081;res=IELFSC.
Rice, S., Washington, P., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2012). An analysis of domestic violence presenting to FRCs at intake and assessment. Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 23(2), pp.89-98. [online]. Available from: http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/2012/05/08/australasian-dispute-resolution-journal-update-april-2012/.
Hamilton, L. and Taylor, N. (2012). Ethnography in evolution: adapting to the animal "other" in organizations. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 1(1), pp.43-51. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20466741211220642.
Taylor, N. (2011). Criminology and Human-Animal Violence Research: The Contribution and the Challenge. Critical Criminology, 19(3), pp.251-263. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-010-9124-6.
Hazel, S., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2011). Can Teaching Veterinary and Animal-Science Students about Animal Welfare Affect Their Attitude toward Animals and Human-Related Empathy? Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 38(1), pp.74-83. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jvme.38.1.74.
Taylor, N. (2010). Animal shelter emotion management: a case of in situ hegemonic resistance? Sociology, 44(1), pp.85-101. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038509351629.
Arbour, R., Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2009). Teaching kindness?: the promise of humane education. Society & Animals, 17(2), pp.136-148. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853009X418073.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). Willingness to pay?: Australian consumers and "on the farm" welfare. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 12(4), pp.345-359. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888700903163658.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). Pet, pest, profit: isolating differences in attitudes towards the treatment of animals. Anthrozoos, 22(2), pp.129-135. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303709X434158.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2009). "Lock "em up and throw away the key?" Community opinions regarding current animal abuse penalties". Australian Animal Protection Law Journal, (3), pp.33-52. [online]. Available from: http://www.voiceless.org.au/News/Animal_Law_News/Australias_First_Animal_Law_Protection_Journal_now_in_print.html.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2008). Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: towards a sociology of the human-animal abuse "link". Sociological Research Online, 13(1-2). [online]. Available from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/1/2.html.
Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2008). Propensity to report intimate partner violence in Australia: community demographics. Behavior and Social Issues, 17(1), pp.8-19.
Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2007). Attitude to animals and empathy: comparing animal protection and general community samples. Anthrozoos, 20(2), pp.125-130. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303707X207918.
Taylor, N. (2007). "Never an it": intersubjectivity and the creation of animal personhood in animal shelters. Qualitative Sociological Review, 3(1), pp.59-73. [online]. Available from: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume6.php.
Taylor, N. (2007). Human-animal studies: a challenge to social boundaries? Proteus, 24(1), pp.1-5.
Taylor, N., Signal, T. and Stark, T. (2006). Australia domestic violence, child abuse and companion animal harm: service provision. Journal of the Home Economics Institute of Australia, 13(1), pp.2-5. [online]. Available from: http://www.heia.com.au/images/journal13/jheia13-1-1.pdf.
Jones, G., Jenkinson, C., Taylor, N., Mills, A. and Kennedy, S. (2006). Measuring quality of life in women with endometriosis: Tests of data quality, score reliability, response rate and scaling assumptions of the Endometriosis Health Profile Questionnaire. Human Reproduction, 21(10), pp.2686-2693.
Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2006). Attitudes to animals in the animal protection community compared to a normative community sample. Society & Animals, 14(3), pp.265-274. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853006778149181.
Signal, T. and Taylor, N. (2006). Attitudes to animals: demographics within a community sample. Society & Animals, 14(2), pp.147-157. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853006776778743.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2006). Community demographics and the propensity to report animal cruelty. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 9(3), pp.201-210. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327604jaws0903_2.
Taylor, N. (2005). Luddites or limits? Animal rights activists attitudes towards science. Journal of Critical Animal Studies, 3(1), pp.1-16. [online]. Available from: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_4/Luddites_or_Limits.pdf.
Taylor, N. and Kearney, J. (2005). Researching hard-to reach populations: privileged access interviewers and drug using parents. Sociological Research Online, 10(2). [online]. Available from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/2/taylor.html.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2005). Empathy and attitudes to animals. Anthrozoos, 18(1), pp.18-27.
Taylor, N. (2004). In it for the nonhuman animals: animal welfare, moral certainty, and disagreements. Society & Animals, 12(4), pp.317-339. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568530043068047.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2004). Attitudes to animals: an indicator of interpersonal violence? Journal of the Home Economics Institute of Australia, 11(3), pp.9-12. [online]. Available from: http://www.heia.com.au/images/Journal11/JHEIA11-3-2.pdf.
Journal articles
Taylor, N. (2012). Review of Pachirat, T., Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. Anthrozoos, 25(3), pp.388-390. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303712X13403555186532.
Conference publications
Taylor, N. (2012). From gate to plate: perspectives on contemporary food production and animal welfare. In The Arts and Sciences of Human - Animal Interaction.
Other public research outputs
Taylor, N. (2012). Reversing Meat-Eating Culture to Combat Climate Change (Report). , pp.3-12. [online]. Available from: http://www.worldpreservationfoundation.org/Downloads/ReversingMeatEatingCultureCC_NikTaylor_140612.pdf.
Taylor, N. and Signal, T. (2011). Editors. Theorizing Animals: Re-Thinking Humanimal Relations, 11.
Professional and community engagement
Public Lecture, Addressing Animal Abuse: Reflections and Future Directions, NZCHAS and Minding Animals Pre-Conference event. University of Canterbury, Sept 21st 2011.
'Human, All too Human', commentary on animal rights and The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Guardian, August 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/aug/19/rise-planet-apes-animal-rights
The Claws Come Out,' The Australian, January 2011, article regarding animal abuse, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/the-claws-come-out/story-e6frg8h6-1225986370370
Expertise for media contact
- crime and animal abuse
- human-animal violence links
- animal welfare
- green criminology
Further information
Managing Editor (Social Sciences), Society & Animals
Associate Board Member, Sociology
Editorial Board Member, Sociological Research Online; Anthrozoos; Journal for Critical Animal Studies
Associate, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/
Executive Committee Member, Minding Animals Australia http://www.mindinganimals.com/
Charter Scholar, Animals & Society Institute, http://www.animalsandsociety.org/scholar/n_taylor
Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania Co-Director, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/about/icas-australia/
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