{"id":280,"date":"2019-05-15T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclearsocieties\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:55:00","slug":"dr-karen-bickerstaff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/dr-karen-bickerstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Karen Bickerstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/01\/KB-image-2025.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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 \u2013 addressing what it is to live with risky techno-environmental infrastructures and the intersections between place, harm and power.\u00a0 She has also worked on the politics of nuclear publics \u2013 that is, how public constituencies are brought into being around nuclear policy, planning and controversy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Bickerstaff K, Moseley A, Devine-Wright P (2025) Five ways to improve net zero action \u2013 our new research highlights lessons from the past.\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/five-ways-to-improve-net-zero-action-our-new-research-highlights-lessons-from-the-past-244195\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/five-ways-to-improve-net-zero-action-our-new-research-highlights-lessons-from-the-past-244195<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>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 <em>Social<\/em> Science &#8211; Full Report. ACCESS Project, University of Exeter, UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F10871%2F137715&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csk902%40exeter.ac.uk%7C55944e01751b46446f6a08de365a7bac%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C639007959426497019%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=MHbcDVaJFErrpuv5rchy6sYvs5%2BoewQkF93Rmk0%2FZsA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bickerstaff K (2022) \u2018Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence\u2019,&nbsp;<em>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/tran.12540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/tran.12540<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Bickerstaff is an environmental geographer, working in fields of environmental risk knowledge and the political and ethical dimensions of sustainable transitions. 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