NUCLEAR SOCIETIES
NUCLEAR SOCIETIES
Karen Bickerstaff is an environmental geographer, working in fields of environmental risk knowledge and the political and ethical dimensions of sustainable transitions. She has a long track record of research on toxic and nuclear geographies – addressing what it is to live with risky techno-environmental infrastructures and the intersections between place, harm and power. She has also worked on the politics of nuclear publics – that is, how public constituencies are brought into being around nuclear policy, planning and controversy.
Selected publications:
Bickerstaff K, Moseley A, Devine-Wright P (2025) Five ways to improve net zero action – our new research highlights lessons from the past. The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/five-ways-to-improve-net-zero-action-our-new-research-highlights-lessons-from-the-past-244195
Bickerstaff K, Abram S, Christie I, Devine-Wright P, Guilbert S, Hinchliffe S, Moseley A, Pitchforth E, Walker G and Whitmarsh L. (2024) Making a Net Zero Society: Follow the Social Science – Full Report. ACCESS Project, University of Exeter, UK. Link to Report
Bickerstaff K (2022) ‘Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12540