Dr Jessica Groling

Department: Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
Discipline: Sociology and Philosophy
Research Centre/Unit: EASE - Exeter Anthrozoology and Symbiotic Ethics Working Group

Project Summary

My doctoral research is a Critical Discourse Analysis of British broadcast and print media representations of urban foxes.

Supervisory Team

Dr. Nigel Pleasants and Dr. Samantha Hurn

Mentor: Prof. Tia DeNora

Wider Research Interests


Current project: "Tails from the streets"

TBC

 

PHD research: Media representations of urban foxes

Areas of interest:

  • the social construction of human-animal relations
  • human-wildlife conflict, particularly in urban areas
  • 'vermin' and other 'problem animals'
  • the sociologies of moral panic and risk
  • representations of the rural
  • wildlife crime and green criminology
  • compassionate conservation
  • corpus analysis methods
  • moral vocabularies and their emergence
  • the history and politics of social movements
  • Critical Animal Studies
  • participatory research methodologies and advocacy research

Much of my research is informed by the needs and objectives of social movements that I have been a part of. I have done research for campaign groups, compiling corporate profiles, conducting interviews, and using the Freedom of Information Act (2000), and give talks on the use of these methodologies to campaign groups to help them in the research stage of their campaign planning.

 

Publications

Gröling, J.S. (2013) "University Ethical Review Committees and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act: Using the Freedom of Information Act as a research tool" in Calvert, C.D. and Gröling, J.S. (eds.) _Proceedings from the Critical Perspectives on Animals in Society conference, Exeter 2012._

 

Gröling, J.S. (2014) "Looking at perpetrators of socially-sanctioned violence against animals through the eye/I of the CAS scholar" in Taylor, N. and Twine, R. (eds.) _From the Margins to the Centre? The Rise of Critical Animal Studies_. Routledge.

 

Gröling, J.S. (2012) "Accounting for the Women of the Animal Rights Movement / Emily Gaarder (2011) Women and the Animal Rights Movement. Rutgers University Press. London. - Review Essay" in _Journal for Critical Animal Studies_, X:I, 219-229.

 

Calvert, C.D. and Gröling, J.S. (eds.) (2013) _Proceedings from the Critical Perspectives on Animals in Society conference, Exeter 2012._

 

Gröling, J.S. (2011) "International Animal Rights Conference: Luxembourg, May 2011" in _Journal for Critical Animal Studies_, IX:III, 104-112.

 

Gröling, J.S. (2010) "1st Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom" in _Journal for Critical Animal Studies_, VIII:I/II, 212-215.