I’m currently thinking, talking and writing about:

• Approaching responsible innovation through the lens of human capabilities.
• The politics of plant synthetic biology.
• Studying with as a shorthand for collaborative research in quite high stakes settings.
• Creating spaces (like literal, material ones) to expand the possible worlds of science.
• The parallels between making photos and doing STS.

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Book!

• Governing synthetic biology: Building technologies building worlds with Emma Frow and Lalitha Sundaram; 2025. Please subscribe to it and give me tiny royalties.

Journal articles and academic reports

2026

• Histories of scientific responsibility in Japan and the UK. In East Asian Science, Technology & Society with Yuko Fujigaki, Ryuma Shineha and Steve Sturdy; 2026.

2025

• The soba restaurant and the oyster bar: Peripheral spaces for responsible research and innovation. In East Asian Science, Technology & Society with Ken Kawamura, Erika Szymanski, Ryuma Shineha and Jane Calvert; 2025.
• International perspectives on the meaning of engagement in biotechnology risk assessment: the case of gene drive. Journal of Risk Research. with Sarah Hartley, Aleksandra Stelmach and Adam Kokotovich; 2025.
• Engineering biology applications for environmental solutions: potential and challenges. Nature Communications. w/David Lea-Smith, Francis Hassard, Louise Horsfall, Kyle Parker and many others; 2025.

2024

• Governing beyond the project: Refocusing innovation governance in science and technology funding. In Social Studies of Science with Stefan Schäfer and Michael Bernstein; 2024.

• Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels. Environmental Science & Policy. with Sarah Hartley; 2024.

2022

• The European Commission’s Green Deal is an opportunity to rethink harmful practices of research and innovation policy. In Ambio with Michael Bernstein, Thomas Franssen and Mandy de Wilde; 2022.

• Exploring the value of a gene drive registry. Nature Biotechnology with Riley Taitingfong and many other people; 2022.

2021

• Taking knowledge production seriously in responsible research and innovation. In Journal of Responsible Innovation with Thoko Kamwendo, Anja Berndt and Jamie Parkin; 2021.
• Responsible research and innovation meets multispecies studies: Why RRI needs to be a more-than-human exercise. Journal of Responsible Innovation with Erika Szymanski and Jane Calvert; 2021.
• Knowing when to talk? Plant genome editing as a site for pre-engagement institutional reflexivity.  Public Understanding of Science with Sarah Hartley, Patrick Middleton and Tracey Jewitt; 2021.
• Ugandan stakeholder hopes and concerns about gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control: new directions for gene drive risk governance. Malaria Journal with Sarah Hartley, Adam Kokotovich, Chris Opesen, Tibebu Habtewold, Katie Ledingham, Ben Raymond and Charles Rwabukwali; 2021.

2020

• Results and recommendations of the virtual 2nd Biotech Hub Meeting convened by the ERA-NET Cofund on Biotechnology  with Ros Attenborough, Thoko Kamwendo, and Karen DePrie for the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK); 2020.
• Bioengineering horizon scan 2020. Elife, 9, e54489 with Luke Kemp, William Sutherland and many others; 2020.
• Crossing Kingdoms: How Can Art Open Up New Ways of Thinking About Science? Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (8):715. with Erika Szymanski, Tarsh Bates, Elise Cachat, Jane Calvert, Oron Catts, Lenny Nelson, Susan Rosser and Ionat Zurr; 2020.

2019

• An Agenda for Responsible Research and Innovation in ERA CoBioTech. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and ERA CoFund on Biotechnology. With Deborah Scott, Thoko Kamwendo and Jane Calvert; 2019.

2018

• Who’s talking about non-human Genome Editing? Mapping public discussion in the U.K. London: Sciencewise. with Gabby Samuel; 2018.

• Synthesing a Human Genome. What could go right? Report of a Wellcome Trust Workshop. with Tom Ellis, Susan Rosser, Patrick Cai and Paul Freemont; 2018.

2017

• Synthetic Biology Biosensors for Global Health Challenges: Workshop report of the flowers consortium. London: King’s College London. With Claire Marris, Dominic Berry, Lalitha Sundaram and Nikolas Rose; 2017.
• A mobilising concept? Unpacking academic representations of responsible research and innovation. Science and Engineering Ethics.23(1) 81-103 with Barbara Ribeiro and Kate Millar; 2017.

2015

• Integrating Social and Value Dimensions Into Sustainability Assessment of Lignocellulosic Biofuels. Biomass and Bioenergy 82 49–62. w/ Sujatha Raman, Alison Mohr, Richard Helliwell, Barbara Ribeiro, Orla Shortall and Kate Millar; 2015.

2014

• Biofuels Under the Spotlight: The State of Assessment and Potential for Integration. Science and Public Policy 41 (3): 283–93. w/ Philip Boucher and Kate Millar; 2014

Thesis

• Constructing ‘the ethical’ in the development of biofuels. University of Nottingham; 2016.