Talks

Keynotes and Plenaries

2024 - "Welfare concerns for managing surplus animals" (Presentation at 2024 International Exhibited Animal Welfare Conference, Taipei Zoo)
2024 - "How do we know what's good for insects?" (Keynote presentation at Symposium on Insect Welfare and Ethics, Wageningen University)
2022 - "Animal welfare in theory and practice" (Keynote presentation at the Animal Olfaction and Welfare workshop hosted by APOPO, Tanzania)
2022 - "Conceptual engineering for animal welfare" (Keynote presentation at the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, online)
2022 - "A framework for interspecies welfare comparisons" (Keynote presentation at the Conference on Interspecies Comparisons of Welfare hosted by Rethink Priorities, London School of Economics and Political Science) Recording available

Invited Talks

2025- "Increasing animal agency with animal-computer interaction" (presented by invitation at AI, Animals and Digital Minds conference, London)
2025 - "Taking an animal-centred perspective" (presented by invitation at workshop 'Animal Rights and Rights of Nature: Connections and Tensions' at the University of Southampton)
2025 - "Animal welfare and the search for a hedonic common currency" (presented by invitation at workshop 'Are there Unidimensional ‘Common Currencies’ of Value?' at the University of Reading)
2025 - "Animal welfare challenges in de-extinction" (presented online by invitation for 'Making De-Extinction Extinct' webinar in Animal Law & Science Project Webinar Series) [Recording available]
2025 - "Positive wild animal welfare" (presented online by invitation for 'Is Wild Animal Welfare Mostly Positive or Negative?' webinar hosted by NYU) [Recording available]
2025 - "From subjects to stakeholders: Centring animals in welfare research" (presented by invitation at the Workshop on Participatory Engagement in Animal Welfare Research, Harper Adams University)
2025 - "Sentience report and legislation" (presented online by invitation for the EastBio Livestock and Aquaculture Thematic Group)
2024 - "Mapping animal affect" (presented online by invitation at Radbound University Animal Sentience Research workshop)
2024 - "Best practice for welfare assessment and behavioural indicators to use in aquaculture" (presented online by invitation at salmon industry welfare webinar)
2024 - "Evaluating measures of animal welfare" (presented online by invitation as part of a workshop at the Animal Behaviour Live Conference) [Recording available]
2024 - "How to choose an animal welfare concept" (presented by invitation at Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture, Oxford)
2024 - "Positive aspects of wild animal welfare" (presented online by invitation at the Wild Animal Welfare Committee Conference)
2024 - "Mapping animal affect" (presented by invitation at the Animal Consciousness Conference 2024, Kathmandu)
2024 - "How do we set thresholds for animal welfare?" (presented by invitation at University of Stirling philosophy visiting speaker seminar)
2024 - "Animal Sentience" (presented by invitation at Newcastle University Animal Welfare Workshop ‘People Feel Better – But What About Animals?’)
2024 - "How do we set thresholds for animal welfare?" (presented by invitation at University of Reading philosophy visiting speaker seminar)
2023 - "The problems with making intra-individual welfare comparisons" (presented by invitation at the 13th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2023 - "What is wild animal welfare?" (presented online by invitation as part of the Wild Animal Initiative's Methods Workshop) Recording available
2023 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented online by invitation for the CUNY Cognitive Science Speakers Seminar)
2023 - "Animal suffering" (presented online by invitation at University of Sydney conference on Philosophy of Medicine for the 21st Century)
2023 - "The importance of animal sentience" (presented by invitation at the University of Southampton Inaugural 3Rs Conference and Networking Event)
2023 - "Conceptual engineering for animal welfare" (presented by invitation at the Bristol University philosophy visiting speaker seminar series)
2023 - "How can we know what is good for insects?" (presented online for Insect Welfare Research Society research seminar series) Recording available
2023 - "Sentience, welfare, and ecology" (presented online as part of a symposium on How Understanding Animal Welfare Can Improve Understanding of Ecology and Practice at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting)
2023 - "Invertebrate sentience and policy" (presented by invitation at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar, Newcastle University)
2023 - "Are there multiple relevant welfare thresholds?" (presented by invitation at the 12th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2023 - "Animal welfare panel" (invited panel member at the 12th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2023 - "The underdetermination problem for interspecies welfare comparisons" (presented by invitation at Welfare Across Species workshop, Paris School of Economics)
2023 - "Animal behaviour and welfare" (presented online by invitation for Animal Behaviour Live seminar: Understanding Animals: Behaviour and Welfare Entangled)
2023 - "How to choose a welfare measure" (presented online by invitation for the DEFRA Animal Welfare Research seminar)
2023 - "Developing collaborative futures" (invited panelist at The Animal Research Nexus Programme Meeting)
2022 - "Conceptual engineering for animal welfare" (presented online by invitation at the Open University philosophy research seminar) Recording available
2022 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented online by invitation at the Ruhr University Situated Cognition interdisciplinary reading group)
2022 - "Conceptual engineering for animal welfare" (presented by invitation at the University of Birmingham philosophy seminar series)
2022 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented by invitation at Workshop on Memory, Consciousness and the Emotions, London School of Economics)
2022 - "The extrapolation problem for indicators of consciousness" (presented online by invitation at workshop on Non-Human Consciousness, University of Cambridge)
2022 - "Interspecies welfare comparisons" (presented by invitation at workshop on Happiness, Utility, and Well-being, University of York)
2022 - "Determining the line of acceptable welfare" (presented by invitation at the 9th Workshop for Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
2022 - "What rights should invertebrates have?" (presented by invitation for the LSESU Animals Society)

2021 - "Animal sentience in UK policy making" (presented online by invitation at the Royal Society of Biology Animal Science Meeting)
2021 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented online by invitation at the University of Cambridge Kinds of Intelligence workshop) Recording available
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 - "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 - "Animals and Longtermism" (presented online by invitation at the 6th Workshop for Global Priorities Research, Oxford University)
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)
2019 – “Sentience research and welfare science: a promising partnership” (presented by invitation at ANZLAA Animal Welfare Symposium at ANU)
2018 – “Sentience research and welfare science: A promising partnership” (presented by invitation at ANU Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries workshop)
2017 – “Making inter-species welfare comparisons” (presented by invitation at Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach workshop)

Refereed Talks

2025 - "Understanding animal interests through affect profiles" (Presented at Animal Liberation, 1975-2025 and Beyond, Rennes)
2024 - "Modes of (Well)Being" (presented at Global Priorities Institute's 15th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research)
2024 - "The complexities of intrapersonal welfare comparisons" (presented at the International Society of Utilitarian Studies conference, London)
2023 - "Invertebrate sentience and welfare" (panel discussion at the Animal Welfare Research Network conference, Newcastle)
2022 - "Validating indicators of subjective animal welfare" (presented at the Philosophy of Science Association 28th Biennial Meeting, Pittsburgh)
2022 - "Insect sentience and policy implications" (presented at the Entomological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting, Vancouver)
2022 - "Determining the line of acceptable welfare" (presented at the UFAW International Conference, Edinburgh) Recording available (from 1:07:00)
2022 - "Measuring the welfare impact of fertility control" (presented at the 9th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control, hosted by The Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control, Colorado Springs) Recording available
2022 - "Constructing animal affect profiles" (presented at the workshop on Animal Minds, UC San Diego)
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 - "The case for positive wild animal welfare" (presented online at the Wild Animal Ethics Conference, University of St. Andrews) 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)
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)
2018 – “The lion or the lungfish: making intersubjective welfare comparisons” (presented at AAP conference; winner of Postgraduate Presentation Prize)
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)

Public Events

2025 - "Human and animal experience" (presented as part of a public seminar series hosted by the City Art Gallery, Southampton)
2023 - "Elephant in the (Court)room: Why are animal rights such a grey area?" (panel member for public Science Speakeasy event, hosted by the International Centre for Life, Newcastle)
2022 - "Assessing animal sentience" (presented by invitation at the University of Birmingham public event New Directions for a Science of Consciousness)
2022 - "Cephalopod sentience" (presented by invitation as part of an online discussion event Why We Should Ban Octopus Farming, hosted by the Aquatic Life Institute) Recording available
2022 - "The Use of Welfare Indicators in Aquaculture" (presented by invitation as part of an online webinar on Blind Spots in the Blue Foods Vision for Aquaculture, hosted by the Working Group on the Law, Policy, & Ethics of Aquaculture)
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 - "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
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

Interviews and Podcasts

2025 - Guest on Philosophy Smash podcast with Henry Taylor: "How should we treat animals?" [Recording available]
2025 - Guest on Sentientism podcast with Jamie Woodhouse [Recording available]
2025 - Interviewed for ABC news radio ‘nightlife’ segment: "Animal sentience" [Recording available]
2024 - Interviewed for Howtown podcast: "Can invertebrates feel pain?" Recording available
2024 - Interviewed for 'What is it like to be a Philosopher?' blog Available here
2023 - Interviewed on BBC World Service 'The Food Chain': "Should We Farm Octopus?" Recording available
2022 - Guest on the ePODstemology Podcast with Mark Fabian and Walter Veit Recording available
2022 - Guest on The Human Podcast with Joe Murray Recording available
2022 - Guest on Knowing Animals Podcast with Josh Milburn Recording available
2022 - Guest on University College London’s Life Sciences Podcast talking about "De-extinction and animal welfare"
2021 - Guest on Sentientism podcast with Jamie Woodhouse Recording available
2021 - Guest on Tent Talks podcast with Cody Turner Recording available