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Dr Brooke Kennedy

Senior Lecturer in Anthrozoology and Indigenous Knowledge - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Phone: +61 02 6773 5066

Biography

Brooke is a proud Gomeroi yinarr (Kamilaroi Woman) whom having recently completed her PhD, is an early career academic. Brooke’s honours and doctoral studies focused on free-roaming dogs and cats in remote Aboriginal communities, specifically, their roaming behaviours and how these have impacted both humans and wildlife.

Brooke is currently a Chief Investigator on the Keeping Cats Safe at Home (KCSAH) Project of the RSPCA NSW. In this role, Brooke is evaluating the impact of a social education program across four Local Government Areas in NSW on the roaming behaviours of owned domestic cats. Brooke is passionate about our native wildlife and how we can reduce the impacts our domestic pets have on them. She also teaches in the space of global wild canid ecology, working dogs and traditional ecological knowledge.

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The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.