Dr Paul Hurley
Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Paul Hurley is an interdisciplinary researcher, artist and facilitator who joined Geography and Environmental Science in 2016 to work on projects investigating approaches to human and nonhuman worlds, in the context of antimicrobial resistance, animal welfare, and food systems and practices - what and how people buy, grow, eat and sell.
Understanding the cultures in which we live is central to understanding the environments we want to care about.
Originally background in performance and participatory arts, Paul has been involved in a wealth of projects that combine creative and non-creative research methodologies. Working at the intersection of social science and humanities work, he is interested in ecology, food systems, animals, health, culture, gender and communities.
Paul is active in collaborative work across disciplines and between academic and non-academic partners, and in innovative public engagement in different contexts. Since 2018 he has worked as an artist consultant on the Animal Research Nexus project, developing public engagement activity around laboratory animal welfare. He has also been project artist on the Christian Ethics in Farmed Animal Welfare project and between 2018-2019 he was artist-in-residence at the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.