Catherine Duxbury

I am a a Fellow at the London School of Economics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex.

I am an interdisciplinary social science researcher specialising in the area of Critical Animal Studies, focusing particularly on the interrelationship on the gendered nature of nonhuman animal representation. After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology, I studied for an MA and PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex. My PhD focused on animal experimentation in mid-twentieth century Britain, analysed through a feminist lens. My book: Science, Gender and Animal Experimentation in Britain since 1945 will be published this Autumn. My research interests fall broadly under environmental social science, feminism and the history and sociology of science.

I also have over a decade of teaching experience and have held teaching postions at the University of Essex, in the interdisciplinary Studies Centre and the Sociology Department. In my teaching practice, I draw inspiration from the works of many critical pedagogy scholars including Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and bell hooks.