Nuclear Societies Research Group
Nuclear Societies Research Group
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.
Bickerstaff, K., Moseley, A., and Devine-Wright, P. (2025) Five ways to improve net zero action – our new research highlights lessons from the past. The Conversation. [link]
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]
Bickerstaff, K. (2022) Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, 955-970. [link]
