Clair Linzey

Clair gained an MA in Theological Studies at the University of St Andrews, followed by an MTS at Harvard Divinity School. She then returned to St Andrews to complete her PhD in theology. She is also the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. In addition, she is Director of the Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School, an interdisciplinary event attended by academics and students from around the world held at Merton College, University of Oxford.

She serves as co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics published by the University of Illinois Press, and is co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series on Animal Ethics, which comprises more than 40 multidisciplinary books on animal related issues.