Rebekah Fox

Rebekah Fox photo

Room S9
Department of Health and Social Care
Royal Holloway
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX

Tel: 01784 414962
Email: rebekah.fox@rhul.ac.uk

Background:

Temporary Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of York, Jan-March 2006, `Humans and Other Animals´ Course
PhD `The Cultural Geographies of Pet-Keeping´, Royal Holloway, 2001-2005
MA (Research) Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway, 2000-2001
BA (Hons) Human Geography and Fine Art, Lancaster University, 1997-2000

Current Role:

I am currently working as a researcher on the `My Mother, My Self´ Project, within the `Changing Families, Changing Food´ programme.

Research Interests:

  • Pet-keeping
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Everyday geographies
  • The body
  • Beliefs about new genetics
  • Women’s experiences of pregnancy

Experience & Publications:

`Animal behaviours, post-human lives – everyday negotiations of the animal-human divide in pet-keeping´ - Social and Cultural Geography (special edition Post-human, Post-natural Geographies) (forthcoming)
Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers, Annual Conference, London, September 2003. Title: `The everyday ethics of pet-keeping´
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2004. Title: `Convivial geographies of the home – pets, people and other relationships´
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, September 2005 (forthcoming). Title `Non human ethics: decisions in the medical treatment of companion animals´