Cara Clancy

Job title

Senior Researcher (Global)

Department

Research and Operational Support

Contributor profile

• Social scientist with expertise in human-animal relations and wildlife governance

• PhD in Human Geography from the University of Plymouth • Senior researcher for one of the UK’s leading animal welfare charities

• Over 10 years' experience in the conservation sector, leading on campaigns and communication strategies for global NGOs

• Extensive field research in Colombia and Peru, working with grassroots organisations to address community rights and environmental conflict

LinkedIn profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cara-clancy-36b9604b/

Journal articles

Papers

Animal representations: using participatory practices to co-produce discursive understandings of donkeys and donkey welfare (July 2022). Presented at 31st International Society of Anthrozoology Conference.

Learning with donkeys: a ‘more-than-human’ approach to animal assisted activities (September 2020). Presented at 29th International Society for Anthrozoology Conference.

Linguistic representations of donkeys in UK popular media and the implications for welfare (September 2020). Presented at 29th International Society for Anthrozoology Conference.

Posters

Between welfare and conservation: understanding ‘risk’ in relation to feral and free-roaming donkeys (2 September 2019). Presented at 2nd International Wild Equid Conference.

Projects

Human-animal relations in the Brazilian Northeast: a socio-anthropological case study of donkey trade (Pending final report 29 June 2020)