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Professor of Human Geography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.  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<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Select Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bickerstaff, K., Moseley, A., and Devine-Wright, P. (2025) Five ways to improve net zero action \u2013 our new research highlights lessons from the past.\u00a0The Conversation<\/em>. [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> Science – Full Report. ACCESS Project, University of Exeter, UK. [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bickerstaff, K. (2022) Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence,\u00a0Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers<\/em>, 47, 955-970. [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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