Dr. Nik Taylor is an internationally recognized critical and public sociologist who has published over 70 articles, books and book chapters. Her research focusses on mechanisms of power and marginalization expressed in/through human relations with other species and is informed by critical/ intersectional feminism. Nik currently teaches topics in the Human Services and Social Work program at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand, that focus on human–animal violence links; scholar-advocacy; social change, and crime and deviance, particularly domestic violence and animal abuse.