Sarah is a third-year (PT) Anthrozoology PhD candidate with the University of Exeter and has based her doctoral project ‘Kissing Sharks’ on examining unique, intimate shark-human relationships through posthuman and symbolic interactionist lenses.  After living in Saudi Arabia for 17 years and the founder of a volunteer street-living animal charity in Saudi Arabia. Sarah has utilised her activist-researcher approach, to study, through her anthrozoology master’s research, the reasons for, and factors affecting, abandoned cats in Saudi Arabia. Sarah is also a co-founder of The Anthrozoology Podcast and Anthrozoology Speaks https://anthrozopod.wixsite.com/mysite. Sarah can be contacted at sh750@exeter.ac.uk.