Research

Borthwick, M. "Nationalism for Prophet: Implicit Identities and Apocalyptic Belief in Contemporary Premillennialism", in Religion and the Sense of Self, Theo Wildcroft (ed)., Equinox, 2026. (Upcoming)

Borthwick, M. "Election eschatologies and votes-as-prayers: Exploring the implicit religions of the New Christian Right", Democracy, Disinformation and Religion special edition, in Religion, State, and Society disinformation special edition, pub. Jan 2026. (Upcoming)

Chylinski C, Borthwick M, Michie D, Hathway S, Athanasiadou S. (2021) "Current anthelmintic and antibiotic use in UK organic farming systems." Vet Rec. 2021;e947. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.947 Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2015) "Second Order Harm and the Legitimate Restriction of Hate Speech Under the First Amendment", Fiat Justica, McGill Pre-Law Review. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "'Techno-religious affordances' - How Christian Nationalists use new media to manufacture consent for war", Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Seattle USA, 2025-09-(3-6) [Upcoming]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "God-in-the-algorithmn: Exploring how media formations of faith-nationalist identities make new sovereignties, and challenge existing geopolitics", International Digital Security Forum, Vienna Centre for Societal Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna. 2025-06-06 [Upcoming]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "Prayers at the Ballot Box: Examining Democratic Disengagement Through Religious Modalities of Political Performance", Polarizing Performance or Re-Engaging the Audience Workshop, University of Warwick, 2025-04-25 

Borthwick, M. (2025) "Beyond the Good Death: Understanding Religious Opposition to Assisted Dying Through the Lens of Spiritual Closure", Centre for Death and Life Studies Closure Conference, Durham University, 2025-04-10. Full video available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) '"Election eschatologies and votes-as-prayers: Exploring the implicit religions of the New Christian Right', Religious Disinformation workshop, Open University. 2025-01-20. Full video available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2023) '"Rainbow Fish", Salmon as Place-Makers for Queer Identities', Imagining Queer Ecologies, British Association for Literature and Science, University of Oxford. 2023-12-01. Full video available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2023) 'Salmon Myths as a "Shuttle" for Decolonizing Conservation Schemes', Contemporary Debates in Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Literary Studies Symposium, University of East Anglia, 2023-09-22. Annotated slides available at: [Link]

 Borthwick, M. (2023) 'Deprogramming Presbyterian Thinking in "Nature" Conservation', British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference 2023: Environmental Endings and Religious Futures. Clare College, Cambridge, 2023-09-22. 

Athanasiadou S, Borthwick M, Michie D, Moeskops B, Mitschke V, Lang I, Fittje S, Morell Pérez Á, Tavares O, Experton C, Fauriat A, Chylinski C. "Proceedings of the IAHA Pre-Conference on Organic Animal Husbandry, 6 and 7 September 2021." 20th Organic World Congress of IFOAM 2021; 2021, p. 83–87.

Borthwick, M. (2024) "Welsh Government Briefing Report: Supporting the call for species-specific legislation to be introduced for farmed fish at the time of killing in Wales, including ‘cleanerfish’" 2024-06-28: [Link]

Borthwick M, Gonzales T, Redaro C. (2021) "Blue Loss: Estimating How Many Animals Are Hidden In The Food System" Aquatic Life Institute. Full report available at: [Link]

Caroline C, Spiridoula A, Borthwick M, (2019) "Replacement of Contentious Inputs in Organic Farming Systems Report". Full report available at: [Link] 

Tulloch J, Borthwick M, Friend S, (2018) "More than Food? Exploring the needs and views of those who come to foodbanks", Edinburgh Food Project. Available at: [Link]

Tait, A., Taggart, Eg., et. al. "Starmer's US Trade Deal Will Flood The Market with Substandard Beef", The Telegraph 2025-05-09 (Quoted), Available at: [Link]

Shailer, D (2025) "Fish Holm a ‘testing ground’ for disease, say environmentalists", Shetland Times 2025-04-11, (Quoted), Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "AI for Animals Newsletter #7: The Future of Farm Inspections" (Guest Editor) 2025-02-13. Available at: [Link]

BBC (2024). "Scotland proposes UK's first ban on caging laying hens" BBC Alba. 2024-09-2. (Quoted): [Link]

Ungoed-Thomas, J., Khalid, S., (2024). "First UK onshore salmon project at risk over 'factory farm' claims." The Observer. 2024-09-15. (Quoted): [Link]

Animal Equality UK (2023) "Fish Expert Reacts to Investigative Footage From Scottish Fish Farm", Youtube Video, Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "Briefing for Ministers on the UK-US Trade Deal", 2025-05-16. [2 Pager] [4 Pager]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "20250510 Project Plan for Indigineous Chicken Breeds in East Africa", 2025-05-10, Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "MDB20250501 EFRA Water Quality Briefing", 2025-05-05, Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "MDB20250501 Food Strategy Briefing", 2025-05-15, Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "Developing a Three to Five-Year Strategy to Maximize the Impact of OneKind", 2025-03-27, Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "Speech Presented to the House of Commons on the Launch of the Just Transition Business Case", 2025-03-05. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2025) "A Just Transition Business Case for farmers, animals, and the environment", World Animal Protection, 2025-03-05. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024). "20250129 Trout Briefing" 2025-01-29. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024). "Agroecology carbon sequestration briefing, prepared for the Green Liberal Democrats" 2024-10-23. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024). "Contribution to inquiry into the implementation of the session 5 Rural Economy and Connectivity (REC) Committee’s inquiry into salmon farming" 2024-09-30: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "20240925 Salmon Moratorium Briefing." 2024-09-25. Available at: [Link] Also on parliament website: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "20240821 Nitrates/Phosphates Briefing" 2024-08-21. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "Sermon for the marriage of Edwin and Colleen Andrade" 2024-06-16: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "Response to call for evidence: Water quality and water infrastructure 15th May 2024". Published by the UK Parliament Environmental Audit committee: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "Response to Animal Welfare Council's Call for Information on the Welfare Implications of Breeding and Breeding Technologies in Commercial Livestock Agriculture". Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2024) "Speech delivered to APPG Animal Welfare in Palace of Westminster regarding AWC Revision to 2014 Opinion on WATOK for farmed fish". Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2023) "A letter to Reporter David Liddle concerning Case Reference PPA_002_2020, planning request at Beinn Reithe, Loch Long, concerning the environmental risks of Semi-Closed Salmon Farms". Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2023) "Address to North East Lincolnshire Planning Committee on the risks of RAS Salmon Farms". North East Lincolnshire Planning Committee Meeting 2023/11/29, Grimsby Town Hall, 0930. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2023) "A letter to North East Lincolnshire Council concerning the proposed RAS Facility in Cleethorpes". Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2022) "Expert Letter to the Animal Welfare Council on Wellboat Slaughter". Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M. (2022) "Evidence to update the 2014 opinon of Welfare At the Time Of Killing". Submitted to the Animal Welfare Council. 

Borthwick M, (2021) "Issues in Penaeid Biosecurity", Aquatic Life Institute. Full report available at: [Link]

Borthwick M, (2021) "How viable is corporate outreach as a strategy for improving welfare standards in Aquaculture?", Animal Charity Evaluators. 200 hour project, not published. 

Borthwick, M. (2020) "Welfare issues in farmed Atlantic salmon", Fish Welfare Initiative. Available at: [Link]

Borthwick, M (2019) "Why we should stop developing imitation machines", Towards Data Science. Available at: [Link] 

Borthwick, M (2018) "FIELD LAB: Controlling Leatherjackets, Final Summary", Soil Association. Available at: [Link]