Written by Marta Wronska on August 25, 2021

Sketchnotes from Animal Advocacy Conference 2021

animal advocacy . goals . motivation . sketchnotes

Animal Advocacy Conference
Insights from the Social Sciences
June 30 – July 2, 2021

The conference organized by Dr Kristof Dhont, Maria Ioannidou, Victoria Krings, and Alina Salmen with the help from members of SHARKLab at the University of Kent.

Thanks to the organizers for preparing a fantastic, informative, and empowering event! Here are my sketchnotes from some of the presentations.

• João Graça: Pathways for enabling plant-forward transitions in collective meal contexts.
• Rebecca Gregson: Investigating social support as a potential facilitator of reduced-meat diets.
• Jared Piazza: Monitoring a meat-free pledge with smartphones: An experimental study with samples from three countries.
• Steve Loughnan: Two applications of intervention to meat-eating: Categorization and identifiable victims.
• Victoria Krings: Having a cow and eating it too: Psychological barriers to clean meat acceptance.
• Sarah Gradidge: The effect of species on perceptions of animals: Predictors and causes.
• Dan Kidby: Social Movements, Strategy, Grassroots, Organising.
• Tobias Leenaert: Making compassion easier: A pragmatic approach to help farmed animals.
• Corey Wrenn, Tobias Leenaert, Nella Giatrakou, Jamie Harris: The Reducetarian vs Abolitionist Approach to Animal Liberation.
• Lazaros Gonidis: The Importance of Combining Direct and Indirect Measures in Studies Investigating Attitudes Towards Animals.
• Emma Alleyne: Empathy and Aggression Towards Animals.
• Jamie Harris: Institutional animal advocacy: a key finding from the study of past social movements.
• Samantha Stanley: Ideological bases of attitudes towards meat abstention: Vegetarianism as a threat to the cultural and economic status quo.
• Corey Lee Wrenn: Professionalized Animal Rights and the Grassroots Squeeze.
• Jo Anderson: Strategies and Motivations in New Vegans and Vegetarians: Findings from a Longitudinal Study.
• Maria Ioannidou: An investigation of moral emotion and moral belief in dietary choice: Exploring the attitudes of different dietary groups and genders and their experience of guilt and disgust.
• Madeline Judge: A social identity model of vegan advocacy.
• Christopher Hopwood: Motives to be vegetarian.
• Maike Weiper: ‘I Follow a Vegan Diet’ – How Communication Shapes Perceptions of Meat-Refusers.
• Ben De Groeve: Moral rebels and dietary deviants: How impressions of veg*ns as moral minorities predict their social attractiveness”.
• Matthew B. Ruby: Australian perceptions of the benefits and barriers to vegetarian diets.
• Daniel Rosenfeld: Motivated taste perception: Why do meat-eaters expect vegan products to taste so bad?
• Hannibal Thai: Barriers to meat reduction: Australians’ attitudes towards vegetarian and vegans.
• Rakefet Cohen: The identifiable victim effect: engaging non-vegans in pro-vegan activism.
• Maddy Dawe: Inspiring action for farmed fishes: finding messaging that motivates.
• Roos Vonk: Resistance to vegetarians: Do motives matter?
• Benjamin Buttlar: Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption.
• Ali Ladak: Extending Perspective Taking to Non-Human Groups.
• Joshua May: Harnessing Moral Psychology to Reduce Meat Consumption.
• Shiva Pauer: Meating conflict: Toward a model of ambivalence- motivated meat reduction.
• Ana C Leite: Morally excluding (some) animals: The role of human supremacy beliefs and perceived vegetarianism threat.
• Christoph Klebl: Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an independent dimension in the moral standing of animals.
• Cluny South: When ‘I’ belong I don’t care about ‘you’ : Social connection with a human ingroup facilitates disconnection with outgroup animal members and reduces donation support.
• Adam Feltz: Increasing Knowledge about Animals Used as Food.
• Stefan Leach: Moral memory bias about the sentience of animals.
• Jim A.C. Everett: Speciesism, utilitarianism, and guilt.
• Gordon Hodson: Animals and Animus: How our Relations with Animals Speak to the Essence of Human Nature.

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