DoctorNik Taylor

(Dr.) Nik Taylor is a critical and public sociologist who has published many articles, books and book chapters. Her research focusses on mechanisms of power and marginalisation expressed in/through human relations with other species and is informed by critical/ intersectional feminism. Nik is currently the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where she also teaches topics in the Human Services program that focus on human-animal violence links; scholar-advocacy; social change, and crime and deviance, particularly domestic violence and animal abuse. Nik’s latest books include Queer Entanglements (Cambridge University Press, 2021 with Damien Riggs, Heather Fraser and Shoshana Rosenberg) and Rescuing Me, Rescuing You: Companion Animals and Domestic Violence (Palgrave, 2019, with Heather Fraser).

Read about my work in The Conversation

Read about my work at my blog: Animals in Society: Animal Studies Animal Advocacy

Find copies of my work freely at Researchgate

Find out more about the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies