Amy Baker is a Lecturer in the Occupational Therapy Programme at the University of South Australia. Her research interests include mental health and suicide prevention, human flourishing and physical and social environmental issues that influence health and wellbeing, such as community gardening and pets.
Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt has a PhD in marketing and is an Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark. She has authored around 50 journal articles and her key research areas are tourist studies, consumer behaviour in tourism, destination branding and tourism methodologies.
Katrina Myrvang Brown (Senior Researcher, James Hutton Institute) is experienced in using mobile video methods to investigate how the values, norms and experiences of outdoor recreationists shape wellbeing and abilities to share space, most recently on the much neglected role of haptic senses.
Erik Cohen is the George S. Wise Professor of Sociology (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he taught between 1959 and 2000. He has conducted research in Israel, Peru, the Pacific Islands and, since 1977, in Thailand. He is the author of more than 200 publications and of several books, including Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change (Elsevier 2004) and Explorations in Thai Tourism (Emerald 2008). Cohen is a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. He was awarded the UN World Tourism Organisation’s Ulysses Prize for 2012. He presently lives and does research in Thailand.
Magdalena Dąbrowska (PhD) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin. She was a researcher for the European Commission’s project “QUING” (Quality in Gender + Equality Policies) (2007–2009). She studied in the ERSTE Stiftung (Patterns Lectures programme), Institut fur die Wiessenschaften vom Menschen, and at Central European University (MA studies). Her recent research interests include human-animal relationships in contemporary culture, especially dog shows.
Paula Danby is a Lecturer in International Tourism Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on human-animal relations within leisure and tourism environments, particularly equestrian tourism. Interests include animal tourism, ecotourism, leisure and wellbeing. Paula’s work explores human-animal interactions for mutual wellbeing.
Ruthann Arletta Drummond, Contract Faculty at York University, Canada, holds a Master’s in Environmental Studies. Ruthann’s research focuses on human-animal relationships. Her Master’s research, Think Outside the Cage: Moving Towards New Understandings of Companion Rabbits, appears in York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies Outstanding Graduate Paper Series.
Antonia J. Z. Henderson is a psychology professor at Langara College in Vancouver, BC. Her research focuses on interpersonal relationships, the human-animal bond and the psychology of equine behaviour. Her writings on equine welfare have appeared in both academic (JAWWS) and lay journals (Horse Sport).
Scott Hurley is Associate Professor of Religion at Luther College. His research interests include critical animal studies, intersection of oppressions, human-canine relations and Buddhist and Daoist perceptions of nonhuman animals. He is the author of “Engendering Empathy for Nonhuman Suffering: Using Graphic Narratives to Raise Awareness about Commercial Dog Breeding Operations” and “Human-Canine Relationships in China.”
Petra Lackova is a conservation social researcher with background in collaborative, video (film) and mixed methods research on wildlife management. She is currently a PhD researcher developing a new approach to respond to wildlife conflicts, combining conflict resolution and adaptive management principles on the conflict around white-tailed sea eagles in Scotland.
Pavlína Látková is an Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism at San Francisco State University. Her research interests include community-based tourism, destination image and resident attitudes towards tourism development.
Lisel O’Dwyer has a background in social policy, public health, ageing, human-animal studies and animal behaviour. Recent work addresses attitudes towards chickens and cattle, pets and mental health and pet attachment in bushfire preparation. She is based at Central Queensland University and Flinders University, South Australia.
Katarína Leci Sakáčová has a Master’s degree in tourism from Aalborg University. Her main research area is tourist studies. She teaches consumer studies in tourism and supervises tourism students at a Master’s level.
Jackson Wilson is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism at San Francisco State University. His research focuses on the health impacts of recreating in natural environments, including the impact of leash use on dog walkers’ physical activity.
Aiko Yoshino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism at San Francisco State University. Her research areas are health and nature, youth development and psychological resilience in outdoor education.