Emily Buddle

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Dr Emily Buddle is a Senior Research Assistant within the Food Values Research Group in the School of Humanities. Her research is scholarly, interdisciplinary, and applied as demonstrated by her findings being applicable and readily accessible to the relevant industry sector.

Emily has a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences with Honours from the University of Adelaide, a Graduate Certificate in Internet Communications from Curtin University and a PhD from the University of Adelaide with a thesis titled "Australian Meat Consumers' Understandings of Farm Animal Welfare".

In her spare time, Emily is a sheep, beef cattle and grains producer with her husband in the lower mid-north region of South Australia.

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Emily's main research interests are the social and cultural aspects of food and food production. Her work is interdisciplinary, using mixed-method approaches in her research. She has a sound understanding of qualitative research methods and thematic analysis of transcripts and media content. She works collaboratively with researchers from the School of Humanities and the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Emily is also a proud member of the Food Values Research Group https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/history/food-values/

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2020 - ongoing	Visiting Research Fellow	The University of Adelaide
2019 - 2020	Affiliate Associate Lecturer	The University of Adelaide
2019 - 2020	Program/Policy Officer	Rural Solutions SA
2019 - 2019	Visiting Research Fellow	The University of Adelaide

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2019	Curtin University	Australia	Graduate Certificate in Internet Communication
2019	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Doctor of Philosophy
2014	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Honours
2012	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences

Journals

Year	Citation
2021	Buddle, E. A., Bray, H. J., & Ankeny, R. A. (2021). “Of course we care!“: a qualitative exploration of Australian livestock producers’ understandings of farm animal welfare issues. Journal of Rural Studies, 83, 50-59. DOI Scopus6 WoS2
2020	Loyer, J., Whittaker, A., Buddle, E., & Ankeny, R. (2020). A Review of Legal Regulation of Religious Slaughter in Australia: Failure to Regulate or a Regulatory Fail?. Animals, 10(9), 22 pages. DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2019	Buddle, E. A., & Bray, H. J. (2019). How farm animal welfare issues are framed in the Australian media. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 32(3), 357-376. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2018	Buddle, E. A., Bray, H. J., & Ankeny, R. A. (2018). Why would we believe them? Meat consumers’ reactions to online farm animal welfare activism in Australia. Communication Research and Practice, 4(3), 246-260. DOI Scopus8
2018	Buddle, E., Bray, H., & Ankeny, R. (2018). "I feel sorry for them": Australian meat consumers' perceptions about sheep and beef cattle transportation. Animals, 8(10), 1-13. DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC9
2017	Buddle, E., Bray, H., & Pitchford, W. (2017). Keeping it 'inside the fence': an examination of responses to a farm-animal welfare issue on Twitter. Animal Production Science, 58(3), 435-444. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2017	Bray, H., Buddle, E., & Ankeny, R. (2017). What are they thinking? Consumer attitudes to meat production in Australia. Animal Production Science, 57(12), 2345-2352. DOI Scopus5 WoS5

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2022	Buddle, E. A. (2022). Meet your meat! How Australian livestock producers are using Instagram to promote 'happy meat'. In Z. Kish, & E. Contois (Eds.), Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation.. University of Illinois Press.

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2018	Buddle, E., Bray, H., & Ankeny, R. (2018). Don't stress the animal! Poor animal welfare and the resulting 'essence' in meat. Poster session presented at the meeting of Program abstracts. Sydney, Australia: Society for Social Studies of Science.
2017	Buddle, E., Bray, H., Pitchford, W., & Ankeny, R. (2017). ‘I don’t want to think about it’ concerns about sheep and beef cattle transportation and slaughter amongst Australian meat consumers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 63rd International Congress of Meat Science and Technology. Cork, Ireland.
2016	Loyer, J., & Buddle, E. (2016). A 'Natural' Symbol: Nature, Morality, and Politics in Online Raw Milk Advocacy Communities. Poster session presented at the meeting of Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream. University of Tasmania.
2016	Bray, H. J., Buddle, E. A., & Ankeny, R. A. (2016). Consumers link 'better' farm animal welfare with better quality products. Poster session presented at the meeting of 31st Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production. Adelaide, South Australia.
2016	Buddle, E. A., Bray, H. J., Pitchford, W. S., & Ankeny, R. A. (2016). Meat Consumers Ignore Online Animal Welfare Activism. Poster session presented at the meeting of 31st Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production. Adelaide, South Australia.

Report for External Bodies

Year	Citation
2019	Ankeny, R., Bray, H., Phillipov, M., & Buddle, E. (2019). Building and Maintaining Community Trust in Australia’s Primary Industries: Background Literature Review (PRJ-011478).
2019	Phillipov, M., Farmery, A., Gale, F., Buddle, E., & Dehghan, E. (2019). Media Messages About Sustainable Seafood: How Do Media Influencers Affect Consumer Attitudes? Preliminary Results of Media Survey. (2017-131).
2019	Buddle, E. A., & Paxton, R. (2019). Preliminary Work Program - People and New/Emerging Technologies in the Australian Primary Industries.

Theses

Year Citation

2019 Buddle, E. A. (2019). Australian meat consumers' understandings of farm animal welfare. (PhD Thesis).

Year	Citation
2019	Buddle, E. A. (2019). Australian meat consumers' understandings of farm animal welfare. (PhD Thesis).

Emily's PhD was funded through the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project "Getting to the Meat of the Matter - Social and economic issues in animal welfare in Australia's Livestock Industries". After completing her PhD, she also contributed to this project through the collection and analysis of Australian meat producers' understandings towards farm animal welfare.

Emily is an experienced tutor and practical demonstrator in subjects including

Principles in Animal Welfare, Behaviour and Ethics (Level I)
Agricultural Systems 1A (Level I)
Animal Handling and Husbandry (Level I)
Livestock Production Science (Level II)
Professional Skills in Veterinary Bioscience (Level II)
Animal Breeding and Genetics (Level III)
Media Industry Transitions (Level III)

Emily has also given lectures to and provided examination material for Level II Animal Science students in social science research methods. She has also been invited to give a guest lecture to Level I Animal Science/Veterinary Bioscience students in community understandings of farm animal welfare.

Email: emily.buddle@adelaide.edu.au