Talks

Keynotes and Plenaries

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

2022 - "Conceptual engineering for animal welfare" (presented online by invitation at the Open University philosophy research seminar) Recording available
2022 - "Assessing animal sentience" (presented by invitation at the University of Birmingham public event New Directions for a Science of Consciousness)
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)

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 - "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)
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 - "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)
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)
2019 - “Effective animal welfare” (presented by invitation at ANU Effective Altruism event)
2018 – “Sentience research and welfare science: A promising partnership” (presented by invitation at ANU Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries workshop)
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)

Refereed Talks

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)
2022 - "Enhancement and feminism" (presented online by coauthor Walter Veit at Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies, Cardiff University)
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 – “If I could talk to the animals” (presented at ANU 3-Minute Thesis final) Recording available
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)

Interviews and Podcasts

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