Research Communication

Costa Rican Monkey Interest Group

• Connects in-country primate researchers, caregivers, conservation practitioners and international collaborators

  • Established by me in 2020

  • 38 international and Costa Rican members
  • Costa Rican Monkey Interest Group on Facebook (facebook.com/groups/costaricanmonkeyinterestgroup)
  • also theanimalwelfarist.ca/costa-rican-monkey-interest-group/

The Animal Welfarist

• A research blog I update to disseminate my research

• theanimalwelfarist.ca (established in 2015, formerly theanimalwelfarist.weebly.com)

• @theanimalwelfarist on Instagram (established in 2019)

Journalistic Interviews

• Queen’s Alumni Review. (7 July 2022). “Field Trip” by Tom Spears
• National Geographic. (21 May 2021). “Helping kids deal with animal exploitation on social media” by ​Natasha Daly
• National Geographic. (2 Nov 2022).“Florida leopard attack put humans—and big cats—in a terrible situation” by Natasha Daly
• The Daily Beast. (21 Oct 2021). Wildlife-loving influencers like Brother Nature are getting too up close and personal with animals. Retrieved from The Antics of Wildlife-Loving Influencers Are Putting Human and Animals at Risk” by Kristin Hugo

Radio & Podcast Interviews

The Animal Turn Podcast. (2020). “Grad Review with Pablo Perez Castello, Siobhan Speiran and Joshua Jones” Season 2, Episode 10

Queen’s Grad Chat on CFRC Radio. (2020). “The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuaries”

Beyond Canada: International Thought and Scholarship on CFRC Radio. (2019). “Working as a Canadian researcher in Costa Rica”

Popular Writing

Research Spotlight for York University. (12 Apr 2024). Minding sanctuary: The potential for multispecies justice through care-full wildlife tourism. By Siobhan Speiran.

I have blogged for DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics, ​contributing several articles regarding my research and interests.

• “So you want to take a selfie with a wild animal? “(13/04/2018)
• “A night with Scarlita: Reflections on animal encounters in Costa Rica” (27/11/2018)
• “My Field Course Experience” (23/11/2017)

My colleague Zara Bending from the Jane Goodall Institute of Australia mentioned my ​work on Radio Adelaide while being interviewed about the topic “Protecting animals on ​social media.”