Talks

2021 - "Animal sentience in UK policy making" (presented online by invitation at the Royal Society of Biology Animal Science Meeting)
2021 - "Integrating animal consciousness into welfare" (presented online at the Philosophy of Science Association 27th Biennial Meeting, as part of a symposium on Animal Consciousness and Welfare)
2021 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented online by invitation at the University of Cambridge Kinds of Intelligence workshop)
2021 - "Management euthanasia and animal welfare" (webinar presented by invitation for the Practical Animal Welfare Science online platform)
2021 - "Making interspecies comparisons of animal welfare" (presented online by invitation at the Brazilian Annual Ethological Meeting)
2021 - "Assessing measures of animal welfare" (presented by invitation at the LSE Philosophy Choice Group, London School of Economics) Recording available
2021 - "The case for positive wild animal welfare" (presented online at the Wild Animal Ethics Conference, University of St. Andrews) Recording available
2021 - "Addressing individual animal interests within the zoo context" (panel member for online roundtable, hosted by the Global Research Network Think Tank) Recording available
2021 - "Wild animal welfare" (presented online by invitation at the 7th Workshop for Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2021 - "Making intersubjective welfare comparisons" (presented online by invitation at the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals colloquium)
2021 - "The Sentience Debate: The moral value of shrimps, insects, and oysters" (panel member for online discussion event hosted by the Aquatic Life Institute) Recording available
2021 - "Animals and Longtermism" (presented online by invitation at the 6th Workshop for Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2021 - Guest on Sentientism podcast with Jamie Woodhouse Recording available
2021 - "Non-human consciousness" [with Henry Shevlin, Walter Veit, Cecily Whitely] (workshop presented online at the Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness Meeting)
2021 - Guest on Tent Talks podcast with Cody Turner Recording available
2020 - "If I Could Talk to the Animals: Measuring Subjective Animal Welfare" (webinar presented by invitation at 'Listening to Farmed Animals in Welfare Science and Ethics' seminar series for Wageningen University) Recording available
2020 - "The natural behavior debate: Two conceptions of animal welfare" (webinar presented by invitation for the Practical Animal Welfare Science online platform)
2020 - "Developing a metric of usable space for zoo exhibits" (EAZA Animal Welfare forum - online)
2019 – “It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain: comparing positive and negative animal welfare” (presented at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology conference, Oslo)
2019 – “Measuring animal suffering” (presented at the 2nd Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research)
2019 – “Sentience research and welfare science: a promising partnership” (presented by invitation at ANZLAA Animal Welfare Symposium at ANU)
2019 - “Effective animal welfare” (presented by invitation at ANU Effective Altruism event)
2018 – “If I could talk to the animals” (presented at ANU 3-Minute Thesis final) Recording available
2018 – “Sentience research and welfare science: A promising partnership” (presented by invitation at ANU Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries workshop)
2018 – “The lion or the lungfish: making intersubjective welfare comparisons” (presented at AAP conference; winner of Postgraduate Presentation Prize)
2017 – “Effective animal welfare” (presented by invitation at ANU Effective Altruism event)
2017 – “Making inter-species welfare comparisons” (presented by invitation at Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach workshop)
2017 – “Validating scientific indicators of hidden targets” (presented at AAP conference)
2016 – “Won’t somebody please think of the mammoths? De-extinction and animal welfare” (presented at AAP conference)
2016 – “Management euthanasia and animal welfare” (presented at Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference)
2015 – “Animal welfare is subjective welfare” (presented at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology conference, Montreal)