I am an environmental geographer and my work focuses on:
i) The place-based dimensions of living with technological and environmental risks, this has included research on urban air pollution, hazardous infrastructure (such as nuclear facilities) and the impacts of climate change;
ii) Geographies of environmental injustice, with a particular interest in debates around energy justice, particularly in relation to future Net Zero and low carbon policy;
iii) social transformation around sustainability and climate goals and, related to this, the intersection between social science and policy-making.
Guilbert S, Bickerstaff K, Bethel A, Garside R, Devine-Wright P and Gatersleben B (2022) ACCESS – Rapid Evidence Summary (for Defra): Defra 25-Year Environment Plan
Bickerstaff K (2022). Living on with Sellafield: nuclear infrastructure, slow violence and the politics of quiescence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Bickerstaff K, Hinton E, Bulkeley H (2016). Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies. Environment and Planning A, 48(10), 2006-2025.
Bickerstaff K, Walker G, Bulkeley H (2013). Energy Justice in a Changing Climate Social equity implications of the energy and low-carbon relationship., Zed Books.
Bickerstaff K (2012). “Because we’ve got history here”: Nuclear waste, cooperative siting, and the relational geography of a complex issue. Environment and Planning A, 44(11), 2611-2628.
Bickerstaff K, Lorenzoni I, Jones M, Pidgeon N (2010). Locating scientific citizenship: the institutional contexts and cultures of public engagement. Science Technology and Human Values, 35(4), 474-500.
Bickerstaff K, Agyeman J (2009). Assembling justice spaces: the scalar politics of environmental justice in North-east England. Antipode, 41(4), 781-806
Bickerstaff K, Simmons P (2004). The right tool for the job? Modeling, spatial relationships, and styles of scientific practice in the UK foot and mouth crisis. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3), 393-412