Roos Schepers

Roos is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Criminology, researching green criminology, zemiology and the everyday harms of industrial animal farming. She is supervised by Professor Ian Loader. 

Roos has a background in green criminology, with a specific focus on the crime of ecocide, and previously researched the role of state-corporate ecocide through oil drilling in Global Southern states. In 2024 she graduated with distinction from her two-year research master, the International Master's in Advanced Research Criminology (IMARC), at both the University of Kent (UK) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL). She holds a bachelors in Political Science from Leiden University.

Roos previously worked at an farmed animal rights NGO in the Netherlands, researching and advocating better welfare standards for farmed animals, and investigating misconduct and animal abuse in industrial animal farming. She furthermore has been involved with StopEcocide, the advisory and expert organisation behind the development of ecocide law, aiming for the most severe environmental damage to be recognised as an international crime.