Opportunities

This section advertises any vacancies that are open at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and informs about other opportunities how to get involved with our work. Many of our opportunities are made possible through generous support by the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy.

Visiting Fellow and Researcher programme

The Centre operates Visiting Fellow and Visiting Researcher programmes to allow academics and practitioners to come to Cambridge to conduct their research, participate in events such as the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series, as well as to collaborate informally with members of the Centre and the University more broadly.

Call for applications Visiting Researchers 2025 (now open)

The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law invites applications for Visiting Researchers to the Centre for a period of eight weeks in Cambridge University Lent Term 2025 (21 January to 21 March).

The purpose of the programme is to enable researchers to work on and substantially complete an academic paper or book chapter which will be ready for publication shortly after their visit. Applicants need to have a clearly developed proposal. Preference will be given to candidates working on questions relating to animal rights in criminal law or criminal law theory, or private law or private law theory.

Applicants must be highly promising researchers who are in the course of completing a PhD or an equivalent qualification. (For those who have already obtained a PhD or who hold senior academic posts, we have a separate Visiting Fellows programme, with the next round of applications opening in autumn 2024 for visits in spring 2026.)

Our Visiting Researcher programme offers an exciting opportunity to become part of our Centre’s lively community. Visiting Researchers will present and discuss their work in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series and in our new Visitors’ Workshop, and will have the opportunity to receive expert supervisions from senior academics. There will also be numerous other academic talks, weekly lunches, as well as other events and opportunities to connect with likeminded thinkers. We expect Visiting Researchers to actively participate in all these events. For this purpose, Visiting Researchers are required to live in Cambridge, and they must be substantially in Cambridge in person for the duration of their visit.

The Centre will arrange and pay the cost of single accommodation for Visiting Researchers in one of the Cambridge Colleges (or equivalent). If a Visiting Researcher prefers other accommodation – eg if they are bringing family – they can make their own arrangements for accommodation, in which case the Centre will contribute an equivalent amount towards the cost.

Funds of up to £2,000 are available per Visiting Researcher for accommodation and travel expenses, but the allocation of funds is decided by the Centre and there is no right to claim any excess funds. Extra funding for living expenses is available for candidates who can provide evidence that they would otherwise not be able to take up the position.

Applications should be sent by email to Dr Eva Bernet Kempers at eva@animalrightslaw.org. The deadline for applications is 30 June 2024. Applicants should send the following materials as a single PDF file: a CV with a list of publications and a 2-page outline of the research paper that they will be submitting for publication at the end of or shortly after their research stay. In addition, applicants are required to provide one letter of recommendation. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the referee submit their reference by the same deadline to Dr Bernet Kempers at eva@animalrightslaw.org.

You can also download this call as a PDF file.

More opportunities

Ways to get involved as a student

Dr Sean Butler and Dr Raffael Fasel teach the course ‘Animal Rights Law’, which is offered in Part II (year 3) of the Cambridge BA in Law. You can take this course if you are a student in the BA programme or any other programme within the University of Cambridge. This course is not open to students outside the University. Students from outside the University are however welcome to participate in all our other events and online talks, lectures, and workshops.