July 2nd – 5th, Edinburgh
About the Conference
The PHAIR Animal Advocacy conference will take place July 2nd – 5th, 2025 at Pollock Halls at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference begins with a public talk by Peter Singer held on July 2nd, and the main programme runs July 3rd – 5th.
The conference brings together researchers from social and behavioural sciences, and animal activists and advocates from around the world.
We are interested in research on a range of topics relevant to animal advocacy including how we think about and relate to non-human animals, dietary choices and veganism, and effective approaches to animal advocacy.
Hosted July 2nd – 5th 2025 at the University of Edinburgh.
Presenting cutting edge academic research and updates from the field.
From advocacy, academic and government institutions globally.
Celebrate 5 years of PHAIR in 2025
Public Lecture
Peter Singer
Journalists have bestowed the tag of “world’s most influential living philosopher” on Peter Singer. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he was Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University from 1999-2024, where he now holds the rank of Emeritus Professor of Bioethics.
Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. Some of his other books are: Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, Pushing Time Away, The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan?, Animal Liberation Now, and, most recently, The Buddhist and the Ethicist.
In 2012, Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the country’s highest civilian honour. In 2021 he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and in 2023, the Frontiers of Knowledge Prize for the Humanities, from the Spanish BBVA Foundation.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Chris Hopwood
University of Zurich, Conference Keynote
Christopher J. Hopwood, Ph.D., is a professor of personality psychology at the University of Zurich. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and completed his doctoral internship at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. He was formally on the faculty of Michigan State University and the University of California, Davis. He has published on clinical assessment, personality disorders, interpersonal processes, sustainability, and vegan psychology.
His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, the International Psychoanalytic Association, Animal Charity Evaluators, and the Humboldt Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, has been an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Personality Disorders, and Assessment, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. He has also served on the professional boards of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Society for Personality Assessment, and North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and is a founding member of the Personality Change Consortium and the Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations.
Brooke Haggerty
Faunalytics, Conference Keynote
Brooke Haggerty has nearly two decades of experience in the nonprofit sector and has dedicated her career to animal protection. She is the executive director at Faunalytics, an organization that conducts and shares research to support animal advocacy. Previously, she served as the executive director and later as a board member for the Foundation for Animal Care and Education, and also worked as a humane educator and later as a campaigns director for the Animal Protection and Rescue League, where she supported volunteers working to pass California’s Proposition 12.
Brooke is a contributing author to the essay collection Antiracism in Animal Advocacy, and is an active member of Women Funders in Animal Rights. She is a former board member and programming chair for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of San Diego, former board member for HandsOn San Diego, and actively volunteers with her alma mater’s student mentorship program. In 2022, she was named one of “40 Top Business Leaders Under 40” by the San Diego Business Journal. Brooke has a Master of Arts in Human Behavior, a Bachelor of Arts in English, and certifications in Marketing and Nonprofit Management.
