Roos Schepers

Roos is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Criminology. Her research focuses on green (environmental) criminology, and the everyday harms of industrial animal farming.  

Roos has a background in green criminology, with a specific focus on the crime of ecocide, and previously studied the role of state-corporate environmental crimes in 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 has a bachelors in Political Science from Leiden University.

Before conducting her DPhil at Oxford, Roos worked at an animal rights NGO in the Netherlands. Here she researched and advocated for better welfare standards for farmed animals, and investigated 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.