(Dr.) Nik Taylor's research focusses on (1) human-animal relationships including links between violence to animals and to humans and (2) the neoliberalisation of higher education/universities. Nik is co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury, where she also teaches topics on human-animal violence links; scholar-advocacy; social change, and crime and deviance, particularly domestic violence and animal abuse. Nik’s latest books include Queer Entanglements (Cambridge University Press, with Damien Riggs, Heather Fraser and Shoshana Rosenberg) and Rescuing Me, Rescuing You: Companion Animals and Domestic Violence (Palgrave, 2019, with Heather Fraser).