| Email | ectyso@essex.ac.uk |
| Biography | Liz is the Director of the Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS), a leading animal protection charity in the UK whose work focuses specifically on the use of animals in circuses, zoos and the exotic pet trade.
Prior to CAPS, Liz worked since 2004 in the field of primate welfare and conservation and, most recently, as the Head of Communications for conservation charity, Wild Futures.
In 2007, Liz co-founded UK registered charity, Entropika UK, and acted as Legal Representative of the organisation’s Colombian partner, Fundacion Entropika, based in the southern Colombian Amazon, until 2009.
During her time in South America, Liz worked extensively with Tikuna indigenous communities in various participatory projects and was fieldwork director of the Aotus Project; a pilot study to establish densities and abundances of the owl monkey (Aotus Spp), in order to present evidence to gain formal protection for the species, which is threatened by large-scale extraction for biomedical research.
Liz is a law graduate with a specialisation in Environmental Policy.
Liz previously worked for leading communications company, Brunswick LLP between 2001 – 2004.
Liz sits on the board of trustees for primate conservation charity, Neotropical Primate Conservation – an organisation that she has been involved with since it was founded in 2007.
In 2013, Liz was admitted as an Associate Fellow to the Oxford Centre of Animal Ethics. |
| Research interests | Animal Rights
Animal welfare
Legal protection of animals |
| Publications | Tyson, E. (2011). The hidden plight of Britain's captive animals. [online] the Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jan/12/knowsley-safari-park-animals-zoo-licensing-laws [Accessed 21 May. 2014].
Tyson, E. (2013). Regulating cruelty: The licensing of the use of wild animals in circuses. The Journal of Animal Welfare Law.
Tyson, E. (2014). For an End to Pinioning: The Case Against the Legal Mutilation of Birds in Captivity. Journal of Animal Ethics, 4(1), pp.1--4.
Tyson, E. (2014). Making it up as they go along: Marius and the zoo industry's inconsistent approach to self-regulation. Journal of Animal Welfare Law.
Tyson, E. (2014). No half-measures: While there are zoos, the killing will continue. [online] CNN. Available at: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/opinion/lion-cull-anti-zoo-argument/ [Accessed 21 May. 2014].
Tyson, E. (2014). Why arguments for killing of giraffe Marius don't stand up to scrutiny. [online] CNN. Available at: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/10/opinion/giraffe-culling-against/ [Accessed 21 May. 2014]. |
| Study areas | Animal wefare legislation in the United Kingdom
Enforcement and efficacy of animal welfare legislation in the United Kingdom |
| Supervisor | Darren Calley |
| Thesis title | An examination of the efficacy of regulatory licensing regimes as a means of guaranteeing effective animal welfare protection in the UK |
| Abstract | Animal welfare licensing regimes generally follow a process whereby an individual must be deemed to comply with a particular set of animal welfare regulations in order
to be granted, and retain, a licence to keep or use animals in a particular manner.
The set of regulations will differ dependent on the specific use that the licensee intends to put the animals to. This research will consider the efficacy of the common
regulatory model of the licensing regime as a means of guaranteeing animal welfare protection in law in the United Kingdom.
The research aims to address the gap in available information on the practical application of four pieces of legislation, whose provisions are delivered by way of licensing, to regulate four different practices involving animals.
The legislation to be considered is:
1. The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1974 or The Pet Animals Act 1951
2. The Zoo Licensing Act 1981
3. The Wild Animals in Travelling Circus Regulations 2012 (Implementation date January 2013) |
| Conferences/presentations | Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Using Existing Legislation as a Campaigning Tool, Presentation, International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg, September 2013.
Licensing Regimes Introduced Under s. 13 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006: Increasing Protection or Limiting Liability?, Poster Presentation, International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2014, London, March 2014. (Special Commendation) |