12 Facts About Siobhan O'Sullivan

Siobhan O'Sullivan is an Australian political scientist and political theorist who is currently an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales.

Siobhan O'Sullivan's research has focused, among other things, on animal welfare policy and the welfare state.

Siobhan O'Sullivan is the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy and a coauthor of Getting Welfare to Work and Buying and Selling the Poor.

Siobhan O'Sullivan co-edited Contracting-out Welfare Services and The Political Turn in Animal Ethics.

Siobhan O'Sullivan is founding host of the regular animal studies podcast Knowing Animals.

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Siobhan O'Sullivan read for a PhD in government and international relations in the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, where she was supervised by Lyn Carson.

Siobhan O'Sullivan's thesis, entitled Animal Visibility and Equality in Liberal Democratic States: A Study Into Animal Ethics and the Nature of Bias in Animal Protection Regulation, was submitted in May 2007.

Siobhan O'Sullivan become a spokesperson for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation and established animal studies prizes with the Australasian Animal Studies Association.

Siobhan O'Sullivan has published in the popular press, and produces Knowing Animals, a fortnightly podcast in which she talks to animal studies scholars about their research.

In particular, Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that those animals who are more visible are offered greater protection under the law.

Siobhan O'Sullivan proposes a new approach to animal advocacy, suggesting that advocates focus on the internal inconsistency rather than the external inconsistency.

Siobhan O'Sullivan expressed concern that O'Sullivan's "call for liberal principles to be applied consistently to animals is vulnerable to the charge that these principles are not meant for animals", meaning that O'Sullivan would have to respond to the external inconsistency first.