Profile
Dr Emily Stone
EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)
I am a postdoctoral research fellow with the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group.
EASE webpage: https://sociology.exeter.ac.uk/research/ease/
The Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics blog: https://anthrozoologyassymbioticethics.wordpress.com/
Research group links
Research interests
My research interests surround human-animal interactions, specialising in human-companion animal relationships. I am part of the EASE research team working on the following projects:
- Old friends, funded by the Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS), investigating UK care home policies towards companion animals.
- How best to say goodbye, funded by the Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS), which explores childhood experiences of disenfranchised grief following the loss of companion animals.
- Perceptions of rhino poaching, funded by National Geographic under their Making the Case for Nature call.
My doctoral research completed in 2019 was an ethnographic exploration of the activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats in the UK (see below publications).
Publications
Stone, E. 2022. Cat People: Human–Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy. Abingdon: Routledge.
Stone, E. 2019. What’s in it for the cats?: Cat shows as serious leisure from a multispecies perspective. Leisure Studies, 38(3): 381–393.