Dr Karen Bickerstaff

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 – 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 – that is, how public constituencies are brought into being around nuclear policy, planning and controversy.

Bickerstaff K (2022) ‘Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12540