I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Bristol (UK). Previously I held a lecturer position in Geography at UNSW Canberra's School of Science in Australia. I have also held teaching positions at Swansea University (UK), the European School Brussels (Belgium), and the University of Bristol. As a researcher at Linköping University, my work spans three main areas:
Nuclear Futures
Principally, my current research engages with the management of highly radioactive nuclear waste sites over distant future time horizons (circa 100,000 years). This includes questions around how information about nuclear waste burial sites can be communicated to future generations, to how relations of accountability for stewarding 'final' repositories for nuclear waste will work in practice between human and non-human things, to how political groups can best provide oversight with the technologies and social practices being put into place to safeguard nuclear repositories into the future.
Speculative Thinking
My research also advances forms of speculative thinking via recent innovations in continental philosophy (Stengers, Debaise, Deleuze, Latour etc.) with geographical research attempting to expand what counts as the empirical field (non-representational theory, new materialism, affect, post-humanism etc.). I am especially concerned with how speculative thinking forms an approach to experimenting with the production of abstractions. Against convention, therefore, speculative thinking would not be a call to think more ‘abstractly’ but would be an open question of how write about alternative forms of future experience that exceed present-day conventions of the phenomenological subject.
Technologies
Advancing debates in human geography, my research also develops an ontogenetic reading of technology following the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon. Key here is the sense that the concept technology is something defined less as a component of human being, and much more as set of nonhuman concretising processes defined by specific technological logics that are irreducible to organic evolution. One implication of an ontogenetic reading of technology is to redefine unconscious relations of thought in terms of material infrastructures and agencies in excess of the human body.
