{"id":1313,"date":"2026-06-19T06:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/?page_id=1313"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:48:22","slug":"harry-fitzpatrick-grimes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/harry-fitzpatrick-grimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Fitzpatrick-Grimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Doctoral Researcher, University of Bristol<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Harry is a third-year doctoral researcher in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His research examines how nuclear waste authorities construct authority, credibility and legitimacy in their efforts to position themselves as long-term stewards of radioactive waste, in the context of deep geological disposal. Drawing on comparative fieldwork across five national case studies (France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom), his work traces the institutional, material and affective strategies through which governance arrangements seek to manage both waste and publics across unfathomable timescales and undisturbed geologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"988\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/06\/fitzpatrick-grimes-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1329\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:250px;height:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/06\/fitzpatrick-grimes-edited-1.jpg 988w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/06\/fitzpatrick-grimes-edited-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/06\/fitzpatrick-grimes-edited-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/06\/fitzpatrick-grimes-edited-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 988px) 100vw, 988px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He is interested in the ways extreme technological timescales, stretching hundreds of thousands of years into the future, force a reckoning with the human imperative to create order, stability and control, and how institutions attempt to impose this on durations that exceed human comprehension. His research attends to the material-discursive practices through which nuclear futures are shaped and contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research interests include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>nuclear waste governance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nuclear modernity and futures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>geotemporalities (\u2018deep time\u2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sociogeology and political geology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>more-than-human geographies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>science, technology and society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral Researcher, University of Bristol Harry is a third-year doctoral researcher in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His research examines how nuclear waste authorities construct authority, credibility and legitimacy in their efforts to position themselves as long-term stewards of radioactive waste, in the context of deep geological disposal. 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