Humane jobs are those that benefit both people and animals.
NEW REPORT: “Toward a Humane Society for Us All: The Social Impacts of Animal Welfare Nonprofits.”
There are significant ethical and environmental reasons to move away from damaging patterns, and towards more sustainable and positive practices and employment sectors that cultivate human and animal wellbeing. This involves the improvement of certain existing areas of work, the creation of new humane jobs, and the development of evaluative tools and concepts for organizations and policy makers to use.
This is the online home for Dr. Kendra Coulter’s research projects related to humane jobs.
Some Recent Items:
- The world’s first major in Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership is launched at Huron University College with Dr. Coulter as coordinator!
- Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection is now available wherever books are sold, published by The MIT Press.
- A powerful tribute to Sunny and those who rescued her in Dr. Coulter’s latest column in The Globe & Mail
- Many new scholarly publications, including unprecedented insight on the Canadian and Dutch enforcement contexts, all open access
- “The sorry state of animal protection in Canada” by Kendra Coulter and Peter Sankoff in the Toronto Star
- “Tiger King Isn’t a Coronavirus Distraction; It’s a Mirror into Our Blatant Disrespect for Animals” in the Globe and Mail
- Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? has been published by Oxford University Press. It is co-edited by Charlotte Blattner, Kendra Coulter, and Will Kymlicka.
- “Hudson & Rex: Charming Canine Actor Challenges Us to Think About Animals’ Labour” by Kendra Coulter in the Conversation.
- “Ontario’s New Animal Protection Force:” feature interview on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
- Dr. Coulter’s column on animal protection is in the Winnipeg Free Press and co-written with former humane jobs fellow Brittany Campbell
- Read Dr. Coulter’s column in the Globe and Mail, co-written with Amy Fitzgerald.
- Read the new and much anticipated report “A More Humane and Safer Ontario: The Future of Animal Cruelty Investigations”
- Dr. Coulter spoke with CBC Radio shows around Ontario about next steps for animal cruelty investigations in Ontario
- Her most recent media articles are on the links between animal protection and public safety in iPolitics and the risks of cruelty enforcement work in The Conversation, Salon, and many other media sources
- Dr. Coulter appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss the future of humane law enforcement
- Report, released October 25, 2018: “Work in Ontario Horse Stables“.
- “Humane Jobs: A Political Economic Vision for Interspecies Solidarity and Human-Animal Wellbeing” is fully open-access in the journal Politics and Animals.
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