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Professor Matthew Kearnes

Professor Matthew Kearnes

Professor
  • Doctorate of Philosophy, Social and Cultural Geography, The University of Newcastle, 2004
  • Bachelor of Science (1st Class Honours) Macquarie University, Human Geography, 1997
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Durham University, 2010
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

I am the Deputy Head of School (Research), of theÌý, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ. I am also a member of theÌý»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱÌýÌýgroup, with research and teaching in theÌýÌýand the ±è°ù´Ç²µ°ù²¹³¾³¾±ð²õ.Ìý

I am also the current president of the .ÌýÌý

IÌýcompleted aÌýBSc (honours) in Human Geography at Macquarie University and a PhD at the University of Newcastle. Before arriving at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ IÌýheld post-doctoral positions at the Department of Geography at the Open University and the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. I alsoÌýheld a Research Council’s UK Academic Fellowship at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Department of Geography, Durham University (2007-2011).

My research is situated between the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), social and cultural geography and contemporary social theory. MyÌýresearch focuses on the social constitution of processes of technological and environmental change. In this context I haveÌýdocumented the constitution ofÌývernacularÌýunderstandings of, andÌýresponses to, technological, scientific and environmental change, and haveÌýexplored novel means for promoting diverse forms public participation. Deploying qualitative and ethnographic methodologies, my research has explored the societal dimensions of, and public engagement with, climatic change, bio-nanotechnology, geoengineering and contemporary water treatment and supply.

I am currently CI on two ARC Discovery Projects. Together with Prof. Alison Ritter (»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ), Dr. Kari Lancaster (»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ) and Prof. Jason Chilvers (UEA) I am a CI on the ARC DP Designing Illicit Drug Policy Solutions: The Role of Participation (DP200100909, 2020-2022), that deploys a novel ethnographic and praxiographic approach to participatory policy processes in the domain of illicit drug policy.ÌýIn collaboration with A/Prof Thom van Dooren (USyd), Dr Emily O'Gorman (Macquarie), Prof StephenÌýMuecke (»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ), Prof Grace Karskens (»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ), Dr Natalie Osborne (Griffith) & Dr Peter Minter (USyd), I am CI on the recently awarded ARC DP Narrative Ecologies of Warragamba Dam (DP220101258, 2022-2026).

I am a CI in theÌýÌý(2020-2025).ÌýI am also currently a member of the leadership team of theÌý.

Prior to these awards, between 2014-2018 I took up an ARC Future Fellowship (FT130101302, Governing Climate Futures: The Social and Political Ramifications of Climate Modification, $713,402). In the context of my ARC Future Fellowship I took up a visiting position in the School of Geography, Oxford University (September 2015-December 2015).

Between 2014-2021 I was a CI in the ARC Centre of Excellence on Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS, CE140100036, 2014-2021, $26 million). My involvement in this large and multi-institutional project represented an innovative collaboration between scientific and technological research and social scientific reflection. In this context I led one of the Centre’s ten signature projects, focused on the ‘social dimension of bio-nano interactions.Ìý

I am a member of the editorial collective for an associate editor ofÌý. I amÌýa member of the , the , the , the , and the .Ìý
Phone
9385 1010
E-mail
m.kearnes@unsw.edu.au
Location
365 Morven Brown
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Kearnes M; Chilvers J, 2024, 'Public engagement and participation revisited', in Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, pp. 195 - 204,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Kearnes M; Chilvers J, 2024, 'Public engagement and participation revisited', in Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 194 - 204,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Kearnes M; Rickards L, 2020, 'Knowing Earth, Knowing Soil: Epistemological Work and the Political Aesthetics of Regenerative Agriculture', in Thinking with Soils Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 71 - 88,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Salazar JF; Granjou C; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M; Kearnes M, 2020, 'Thinking-with Soils: An Introduction', in Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M (ed.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 1 - 13
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Tironi M; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Granjou C; Salazar JF, 2020, 'Soil Theories: Relational, Decolonial, Inhuman', in Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M (ed.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, pp. 15 - 15
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Participation in the making: Rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, pp. 31 - 63,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Remaking participation practice: towards reflexive engagement', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 261 - 288,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Science, democracy and emergent publics', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, pp. 1 - 27,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Kearnes M, 2016, 'Miraculous engineering and the climate emergency: Climate modification as divine economy', in Technofutures Nature and the Sacred Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, pp. 219 - 237,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Knowing and not knowing climate change: pedagogy for a new dispensation', in Hall S; LeMenager S; Siperstein S (ed.), Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon, pp. 37 - 45
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Participation in the making: Rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms', in Remaking Participation Science Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 31 - 63
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Remaking participation: Towards reflexive engagement', in Remaking Participation Science Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 261 - 288
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Science, democracy and emergent publics', in Remaking Participation Science Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 1 - 27
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kearnes M, 2015, 'Miraculous engineering and the climate emergency: Climate modification as divine economy', in Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, pp. 219 - 237
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Kearnes M; Klauser F; Lane S, 2012, 'Risk Research after Fukushima', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1 - 20
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Kearnes M, 2012, 'Technologies of risk and responsibility: attesting to the truth of novel things', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 125 - 148
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Kearnes MB; Klauser FR; Lane SN, 2012, 'Introduction: Risk Research after Fukushima', in , pp. 1 - 20,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Kearnes MB; Klauser FR; Lane SN, 2012, 'Preface', in ,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Lane S; Klauser F; Kearnes M, 2012, 'Conclusion: Reflections on 'Critical' Risk Research', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 219 - 238
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2010, 'Nanotechnology and Public Engagement', in Nano Meets Macro, Pan Stanford Publishing, pp. 473 - 499,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Davies S; Macnaghten P; Kearnes M, 2010, 'Narrative and public engagement: some findings from the DEEPEN project', in von Schomberg R; Davies S (ed.), Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: Options For Framing Public, European Commission, Brussels, pp. 13 - 29
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Degen M; Whatmore S; Hinchliffe S; Kearnes M, 2010, 'The urban green: passionate involvements with urban natures', in Miles M; Degen M (ed.), Culture & Agency, University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth, pp. 62 - 82
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Kearnes M; Doubleday R, 2010, 'United Kingdom', in SAGE Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Society, SAGE, London
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Wienroth M; Kearnes M, 2010, 'Science policy as discourse: the governance of nanotechnology in the United Kingdom', in Feideler U; Coenen C; Davies S; Ferrari A (ed.), Understanding Nanotechnology: Philosophy, Policy and Publics, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Heidelberg, pp. 101 - 120
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2009, 'Nanotechnology and Public Engagement: A New Kind of (Social) Science?', in Kjølberg K; Wickern F (ed.), Nano meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nanosciences and Technologies, Pan Stanford, Singapore, pp. 473 - 500
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Kearnes M; Rip A, 2009, 'The emerging governance landscape of nanotechnology', in Gammel S; Lösch A; Nordmann A (ed.), Jenseits von Regulierung: Zum politischen Umgang mit der Nanotechnologie, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Kearnes M, 2009, 'Nanotechnology and the constitution of the social', in Gammel S; Ferrari, A (ed.), Visions of Nanotechnology, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Kearnes M, 2009, 'The time of science: deliberation and the ‘new governance’ of nanotechnology', in Maasen S; Kaiser M; Kurath M; Rehmann-Sutter C (ed.), Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime, (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook) Springer, Heidelberg
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Hinchliffe S; Kearnes M; Degen M; Whatmore S, 2008, 'Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment', in Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: 3, Ashgate, pp. 501 - 516,
  • Edited Books | 2020
    Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M; Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M, (eds.), 2020, Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury, London
    Edited Books | 2016
    Chilvers J; Kearnes MB; Kearnes MB, (eds.), 2016, Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN,
    Edited Books | 2012
    Kearnes M; Klauser F; Lane S, (eds.), 2012, Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Barrett L; Kearnes M; McLauchlan L; Lancaster K; Mellor R; Ritter A, 2025, 'Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug: Learning From Backyard Cannabis Cultivation in the Australian Capital Territory', Contemporary Drug Problems,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Bonney P; Kearnes M; Rickards L, 2025, 'Responsible biosolids reuse: A critical reassessment of public engagement in the wastewater sector', Journal of Environmental Management, 387, pp. 125556 - 125556,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Lancaster K; Neale T; Addison C; Kearnes M, 2025, 'On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen: Thank You to Our Reviewers 2023 and 2024', Science Technology and Human Values, 50, pp. 231 - 241,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Braine MF; Kearnes M; Khan SJ, 2024, 'Quality and risk management frameworks for biosolids: An assessment of current international practice', Science of the Total Environment, 915,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lancaster K; Neale T; Addison C; Kearnes M, 2024, 'Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)', Science Technology and Human Values, 49, pp. 1163 - 1167,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Van Dooren T; Rooke D; Sadokierski Z; Osborne N; Wiggin B; Armiero M; Muecke S; O'Gorman E; Adamson J; Ureta S; Deger J; Tsai Y-L; Muir C; Wehner K; Kearnes M; Minter P; Rigby K, 2024, 'Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons', Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 11, pp. 6 - 44,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Addison C; Kearnes M; Lancaster K; Neale T, 2023, 'Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 237 - 242,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Addison C; Neale T; Lancaster K; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour?', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 969 - 972,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Kearnes M; Paisley C, 2023, 'The right to repairable energy: A political ecology off-grid solar repair in Zambia', Political Geography, 106, pp. 102962,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Neale T; Dahlgren K; Howey K; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Converging old and new carbon frontiers in northern Australia', Area, 55, pp. 523 - 531,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Neale T; Lancaster K; Addison C; Kearnes M, 2023, 'What Is an STS Contribution Now?', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 3 - 8,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Rogers D; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Geographies of COVID-19', Geographical Research, 61, pp. 312 - 319,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Barrett L; Mellor R; Ritter A; McLauchlan L; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Navigating the grey: Experiences of incremental cannabis reform in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 1621 - 1629,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Dalziell J; Keaney J; Kearnes M; Thierry B; Winter M, 2022, 'Bioengineering human placentas: social implications of an advancing field', Trends in Biotechnology, 40, pp. 137 - 140,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Grove K; Rickards L; Anderson B; Kearnes M, 2022, 'The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19', Geographical Research, 60, pp. 6 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Manwaring K; Kearnes M; Morgan B; Munro P; Pala R; Samarakoon S, 2022, 'What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology?', Alternative Law Journal, 47, pp. 179 - 179,
    Journal articles | 2022
    McLauchlan L; Lancaster K; Kearnes M; Mellor R; Ritter A, 2022, '“It's professional but it's personalâ€: Participation, personal connection, and sustained disagreement in drug policy reform', International Journal of Drug Policy, 110, pp. 103903,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mellor R; Kearnes M; Lancaster K; McLauchlan L; Ritter A, 2022, 'Established Tables and Emergent Huddles: Exploring the Processes of Participation Associated With the Policy Changes to Opioid Pharmacotherapy Treatment in Australia in the Context of COVID-19', Contemporary Drug Problems, 49, pp. 385 - 404,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Miller G; Kuch D; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism', Minerva, 60, pp. 235 - 256,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Hansen UE; Kearnes M; Bruce A; Cross J; Walker S; Zalengera C, 2022, 'Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South', Nature Energy, 8, pp. 1 - 6,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Neale T; Addison C; Lancaster K; Kearnes M, 2022, 'A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations', Science, Technology and Human Values,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Samarakoon S; Munro P; Zalengera C; Kearnes M, 2022, 'The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42, pp. 317 - 330,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kamstra P; Cook B; Edensor T; Kennedy D; Kearnes M, 2021, 'Relational Risk and Collective Management: A Pathway to Transformational Risk Management', Risk Analysis, 41, pp. 1782 - 1794,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Duché G; Thordarson P; Kearnes M, 2020, 'The importance of reflecting on treatment and post-treatment care when assessing the social aspects of cosmetic nanomedicine and transdermal delivery system', Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine, 28, pp. 102214,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ey M; Mee K; Allison J; Caves S; Crosbie E; Hughes A; Curtis F; Doney R; Dunstan P; Jones R; Tyndall A; Baker T; Cameron J; Duffy M; Dufty-Jones R; Dunn K; Hodge P; Kearnes M; McGuirk P; O’Neill P; Ruming K; Sherval M; Williams M; Wright S, 2020, 'Becoming Reading Group: reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective', Australian Geographer, 51, pp. 283 - 305,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kuch D; Kearnes M; Gulson K, 2020, 'The promise of precision: datafication in medicine, agriculture and education', Policy Studies, 41, pp. 527 - 546,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Anderson B; Grove K; Rickards L; Kearnes M, 2019, 'Slow emergencies: Temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance', Progress in Human Geography, 44, pp. 030913251984926 - 030913251984926,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2019, 'Remaking Participation in Science and Democracy', Science, Technology, & Human Values, 45, pp. 016224391985088 - 016224391985088,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Macnaghten P; Davies SR; Kearnes M, 2019, 'Understanding Public Responses to Emerging Technologies: A Narrative Approach', Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21, pp. 504 - 518,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Kearnes M; Kuch D; Johnston A, 2018, 'How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge', Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 14, pp. 22,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kearnes M; van Dooren T, 2017, 'Rethinking the Final Frontier: Cosmo-Logics and an Ethic of Interstellar Flourishing', GeoHumanities, 3, pp. 178 - 197,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Rickards L; Neale T; Kearnes M, 2017, 'Australia's national climate: learning to adapt?', Geographical Research, 55, pp. 469 - 476,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Balmer AS; Calvert J; Marris C; Molyneux-Hodgson S; Frow E; Kearnes M; Bulpin K; Schyfter P; Mackenzie A; Martin P, 2016, 'Five rules of thumb for post-ELSI interdisciplinary collaborations', Journal of Responsible Innovation, 3, pp. 73 - 80,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Kearnes M; Rickards L, 2016, 'Earthly graves for environmental futures: Techno-burial practices', Futures, 92, pp. 48 - 58,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Balmer AS; Calvert J; Marris C; Molyneux- Hodgson S; Frow E; Kearnes MB; Bulpin K; Schyfter P; Mackenzie A; Martin P, 2015, 'Taking Roles in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Reflections on Working in Post-ELSI Spaces in the UK Synthetic Biology Community', Science & Technology Studies, 28, pp. 3 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2015, 'Public participation in science and technology: why the failure to launch?', The Guardian,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kearnes MB, 2015, 'Growing the social life of soil', Australian Policy Online,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Kearnes M; Macnaghten P; Davies SR, 2014, 'Narrative, Nanotechnology and the Accomplishment of Public Responses', NanoEthics, 8, pp. 241 - 250,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Kearnes M, 2013, 'Performing synthetic worlds: Situating the bioeconomy', Science and Public Policy, 40, pp. 453 - 465,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Kearnes M, 2013, 'What is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?', MINERVA, 51, pp. 513 - 519,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Meyer M; Kearnes M, 2013, 'Intermediaries between science, policy and the market', Science and Public Policy, 40, pp. 423 - 429,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Szerszynski B; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P; Owen R; Stilgoe J, 2013, 'Why solar radiation management geoengineering and democracy won’t mix', Environment and Planning A, 45,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Anderson B; Kearnes M; Anderson B; Swanton D, 2012, 'Materialism and the politics of assemblage', Dialogues in Human Geography, 2, pp. 212 - 215
    Journal articles | 2012
    Anderson B; Kearnes M; McFarlane C; Swanton D, 2012, 'On assemblages and geography', Dialogues in Human Geography, 2, pp. 171 - 189
    Journal articles | 2011
    Kearnes M; Wienroth M, 2011, 'Tools of the trade: UK research intermediaries in science policy practice', Minerva: A Review of Science Learning and Policy, 49, pp. 153 - 174,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2009, 'All things weird and scary’: Nanotechnology, theology, and religious affiliations', Culture and Religion, 10, pp. 201 - 220,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Kearnes M, 2009, 'Informationalising matter: systems understandings of the nanoscale', Spontaneous Generations : Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1, pp. 99 - 111,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kearnes M, 2008, '(Re)fazendo a matéria: projeto e seleção', Estudos de Sociologia, 13, pp. 35 - 66
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kearnes M, 2008, 'Informationalising Matter Systems Understandings of the Nanoscale1', SPONTANEOUS GENERATIONS-JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 2, pp. 99 - 111,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kearnes M, 2008, 'Risk society: Towards a new modernity by Ulrich Beck', Geography, 93, pp. 122 - 123
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kearnes MB, 2008, 'Spotlight on … Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity by Ulrich Beck', Geography, 93, pp. 122 - 123
    Journal articles | 2008
    Nordmann A; Kearnes M, 2008, 'Commentary on "The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Scenario Project"', Nanotechnology Perceptions, 4, pp. 65 - 71
    Journal articles | 2007
    Anderson B; Kearnes M; Doubleday R, 2007, 'Geographies of nano-technoscience', Area, 39, pp. 139 - 142,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Hinchliffe SJ; Kearnes MB; Degen M; Whatmore S, 2007, 'Ecologies and economies of action - Sustainability, calculations, and other things', Environment and Planning A, 39, pp. 260 - 282,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Kearnes M; Wynne B, 2007, 'On Nanotechnology and Ambivalence: The Politics of Enthusiasm', NanoEthics, 1, pp. 131 - 142,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Kearnes M, 2007, 'Nanotechnology challenges: Implications for philosophy, ethics and society', HEALTH RISK & SOCIETY, 9, pp. 229 - 230,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Kearnes MB, 2007, '(Re)making matter: Design and selection', Area, 39, pp. 143 - 155,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Grove-White R; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P; Wynne B, 2006, 'Nuclear Futures: Assessing Public Attitudes to New Nuclear Power', The Political Quarterly, 77, pp. 238 - 246,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Kearnes M; Grove-White R; Macnaghten P; Wilsdon J; Wynne B, 2006, 'From Bio to Nano: Learning Lessons from the UK Agricultural Biotechnology Controversy', Science as Culture, 15, pp. 291 - 307,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2006, '(Re)Imagining Nanotechnology', Science as Culture, 15, pp. 279 - 290,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Kearnes M, 2006, 'Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence', Paragraph, 29, pp. 57 - 80,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Kearnes M, 2006, 'Chaos and control: Nanotechnology and the politics of emergence', Paragraph, 29, pp. 57 - 80,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Hinchliffe S; Kearnes MB; Degen M; Whatmore S, 2005, 'Urban wild things: A cosmopolitical experiment', Environment and Planning D Society and Space, 23, pp. 643 - 658,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Macnaghten P; Kearnes MB; Wynne B, 2005, 'Nanotechnology, governance, and public deliberation: What role for the social sciences?', Science Communication, 27, pp. 268 - 291,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Kearnes MB, 2003, 'Geographies that matter—the rhetorical deployment of physicality?', Social and Cultural Geography, 4, pp. 139 - 152,
  • Reports | 2025
    Bonney P; Kearnes M; Rickards L; Hayes J; Rollins C; Burton M, 2025, Biosolids and the Public Rethinking Community Engagement in a Time of Change, ARC Training Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource, RMIT
    Reports | 2024
    Keane J; Kearnes M; McCloskey J; Munro P; Samarakoon S, 2024, State of Repair in the Off-Grid Solar Sector, Solar Aid, London,
    Reports | 2024
    Kuai W; Witzenberger K; Manwaring K; Brown I; Scully JL; Kearnes M, 2024, Modifiable Futures: A Right to Repair for Medical Devices and Assistive Technologies, ,
    Reports | 2022
    Eady S; Khan S; Kearnes M, 2022, Let’s Talk About Water: A community consultation on options for future water security for the Uralla Shire, ZNet Uralla & »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ, Uralla,
    Reports | 2021
    Higgins P; Andersen M; Holley C; Howey K; Johnson F; Kearnes M; Khan S; Leslie G; Molloy S, 2021, Monitoring the Monitor: A Temporal Synthesis of the McArthur River Mine Independent Monitor Reports, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ-GWI & Environment Centre NT, Sydney, ,
    Reports | 2021
    Mellor R; Kearnes M; Lancaster K; McLauchlan L; Ritter A, 2021, Making policy in emergencies – insights for routine policy making. The case example of opioid pharmacotherapy maintenance, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, DPMP Monograph No. 35,
    Other | 2019
    Bhathela N; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Clarke R; Manwaring K; Bowrey K; Bell F; Kearnes M, 2019, Response to ‘Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Leadership’ White Paper Consultation by Australian Human Rights Commission,
    Reports | 2014
    Kearnes MB; Motion J; Beckett J, 2014, Australian Water Futures: Rethinking Community Engagement, Report of the National Demonstration, Education & Engagement Program, University of New South Wales,
    Reports | 2014
    Kearnes MB; Motion J, 2014, Water Recycling and the Public: Guidelines for Community Engagement, Report of the National Demonstration, Education & Engagement Program, Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence & the University of New South Wales, Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence
    Reports | 2014
    Motion J; Kearnes MB, 2014, Water Recycling and Media: Guidelines for Communication, Report of the National Demonstration, Education & Engagement Program, Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence & the University of New South Wales
    Reports | 2013
    Miller G; Kearnes M, 2013, Nanotechnology, Ubiquitous Computing and The Internet of Things: Challenges to Rights to Privacy and Data Protection, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
    Reports | 2011
    Kearnes M; Wienroth M, 2011, A New Mandate? Research Policy in a Technological Socoety, Durham University, Durham
    Reports | 2009
    Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2009, Reconfiguring Responsibility: Lessons for Public Policy, Durham University, Durham,
    Reports | 2006
    Grove-White R; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P; Wynne B, 2006, Public Perceptions and Community Issues: Nuclear Power Project, Sustainable Development Commission, London
    Reports | 2006
    Kearnes M; Macnaghten P; Wilsdon J, 2006, Governing at the Nanoscale: People, Policies and Emerging Technologies, Demos, London
    Reports | 2004
    Hinchliffe S; Kearnes M; Degen M; Whatmore S, 2004, Living Cities: A New Agenda for Urban Natures, Open University, Milton Keynes
    Other |
    Bhathela N; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Clarke R; Manwaring K; Bowrey K; Bell F; Kearnes M, Response to ‘Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Leadership’ White Paper Consultation, Elsevier BV,
    Preprints |
    Kuai W; Witzenberger K; Manwaring K; Brown I; Scully JL; Kearnes M, Modifiable Futures: A Right to Repair for Medical Devices and Assistive Technologies,
  • Media | 2023
    Ritter A; Lancaster K; McLauchlan L; Barrett L; Kearnes M, 2023, As many states weigh legalising cannabis, here’s what they can learn from the struggles of growers in Canberra,
    Media | 2021
    Kearnes M; Manwaring K; Munro P; Pala R; Samarakoon S, 2021, The Productivity Commission has released proposals to bolster Australians’ right to repair. But do they go far enough?,
    Media | 2021
    Kearnes M; Manwaring K; Munro P; Pala R; Samarakoon S, 2021, What does a right to repair tell us about our relationships with technology?, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation,

Current

  • CI -ÌýARC DP Designing Illicit Drug Policy Solutions: The Role of Participation (DP200100909, 2020-2022)
  • CI - ARC DPÌýNarrative Ecologies of Warragamba Dam (DP220101258, 2022-2026)
  • CI - ARC Training Centre for Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource (2020-2025)

Previous

  • CI -ÌýARC Centre of Excellence on Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CBNS, CE140100036, 2014-2021)
  • CI - ARC Future Fellowship Governing Climate Futures: The Social and Political Ramifications of Climate ModificationÌý(FT130101302, 2014-2018)
  • CI - National Demonstration, Education and Engagement Programme, Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence (2012-2014)

International

  • Research Councils UK (RCUK) Fellowship, 2007-2011, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University.Ìý
  • CI - ESRC (UK) grant Strategic Science: Research Intermediaries and the Governance of Science (2009-2011)
  • CI -ÌýDEEPEN – Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies, European Commission, FP7 (2006-2009)

  • 2007 - RCUK Fellowship
  • 2014 - ARC Future Fellowship
  • 2014 - WateReuse International Award, the WateReuse Association.
  • 2018 - Amsterdamska Award, European Association for Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

Vice President,

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My Research Supervision

  • - PhD -ÌýHow do interdisciplinary approaches to engagement with science (specifically art-sciencecollaborations) enable underserved audiences to be empowered, allowing them to be part of conversations where they previously had been excluded?
  • - PhD - Evidence-Making of Biomedical Promise: Critically Analysing Innovative Health Intervention Implementation
  • - PhD -ÌýNeo-Agrarian Prophets and the Regenerative Economy: Rewriting the Foodshed for the Agricultural Turn
  • - PhD -ÌýVaccines as biosocial actants - a Biohumanities approach to vaccine research
  • - PhD -ÌýThe Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education Policy​â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹

My Teaching

My undergraduate and masters teaching is focused in the »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Ìýand programmes and the (MEM).Ìý

I currently teach: