Overview

I am a Lecturer at the University of Exeter, and a member of EASE, the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics working group. I obtained a B. Psychology in Counselling from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa (2009), with research centred on childhood abuse of animals, and in 2011, was awarded an MA in Anthrozoology (University of Wales, Lampeter) with a dissertation relating to virtual and physical memorials assisting socially-isolated individuals, disenfranchised in their grief for deceased companion animals. 

My PhD in Anthrozoology (University of Exeter, 2017) was an ethnographic study of symbiotic practices of care performed by co-existing human–canine partnerships in the field of scent detection and chronic illness; this was later published as a Routledge monograph, Human-Canine Collaboration in Care: Doing Diabetes (2019). I am personal academic tutor to MA Anthrozoology students, a Mental Health First Aider, and have Senior Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

My interests lie in researching the consequences of companion animal death on conspecifics and human caregivers, and in the caring and uncaring treatments exhibited in death and/or disposal of prehistoric to contemporary nonhuman animal companions. Additional interests are in learning and understanding non-invasive, pain-free multispecies biomedical interventions and experiences.

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Publications

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2021

• Eason F. (2021) “Forever in Our Hearts” Online: Virtual Deathscapes Maintain Companion Animal Presence, Omega (United States), volume 84, no. 1, pages 212-227, DOI:10.1177/0030222819882225.

2020

• Hurn S, Stone E, Eason F, Groling J, Badman-King A, Nardone M, Hooper J, Hill K, Szydlowski M, Warda T. (2020) A Preliminary Assessment of the Impacts of C-19 on Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions in the UK and Beyond, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.3608580.

2019

• Eason F. (2019) Human–Canine Collaboration in Care, Doing Diabetes, Taylor & Francis, DOI:10.4324/9780429276781.
• Eason F. (2019) Human-Canine Collaboration in Care Doing Diabetes, Routledge.
• Eason F. (2019) Still "serving" us? Mutualism in canine scent detection of human illness, Society and Animals, volume 29, no. 4, pages 356-375, DOI:10.1163/15685306-00001506.

2018

• Hurn S, Rice T, Badman-King A, Eason F, Groling J, Tacey I, Calvert C, North S. (2018) Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group's written evidence to the UK government's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) commons select committee - pre-legislative scrutiny on the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill (draft dated 12 December 2017). [PDF]

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