A video of session on the changing political economy of research and innovation (CPERI) that I helped organize at the UK-Canadian Frontiers of Science event – see Twitter handle #UKCanFrontiers – organized by The Royal… Read More »UK-Canadian Frontiers of Science: The changing political economy of research & innovation
In response to Melanie Stefan‘s call for academics to write up their CV of Failures and in light of Johannes Haushofer‘s elegant entry, here is mine in all its “gories”. My CV of Failures [UPDATE… Read More »My CV of Failures
It’s just over a year since I published my first book, We Have Never Been Neoliberal, and so it seems as good a time as any to navel-gaze about my publishing experience. As you are… Read More »Failing at book publishing
This is largely a rather geeky post about my particular research interests, so apologies for that! I have been doing research on the Canadian “bioeconomy” over the last 2-3 years, trying to understand how the… Read More »Defining the “bioeconomy”
My short article from Discover Society has been reposted to the LSE Impact Blog: “Kean Birch reflects on a classroom exercise introducing students to the reach of market-driven actions in everyday life. He finds the exercise is also… Read More »Resposting on LSE Impact Blog: “How to think like a neoliberal”
I’ve been discussing the meaning of “quality” in academic research and writing a lot with my colleagues at the minute – both as part of formal discussions about changing tenure and promotion (T&P) criteria and… Read More »Academic quality
4S/EASST Conference, Barcelona, 31st August – 3rd September 2016 Open Track: Turning Things into Assets CONVENORS Kean Birch, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines ParisTech, France ABSTRACT… Read More »CfP 4S/EASST Conference Track: Turning things into assets
The Fourth Annual Workshop on the Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation (CPERI) Producing and Experimenting with Publics in New Political Economies 28-29 June 2016 University of Liège, Belgium ORGANIZERS Dr Pierre Delvenne, University… Read More »Workshop CfP: Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI)
We’re currently revising the tenure and promotion (T&P) criteria in my department, which has led me to ponder what it means to be a productive academic. On the one hand, I agree with some aspects… Read More »Academic productivity
NB: This proposal has now been accepted as an open track for next year’s 4S/EASST Conference. See here for more information. 4S/EASST Conference, Barcelona, 31st August – 3rd September 2016 Track Proposal: Turning Things into… Read More »Track Proposal: 2016 4S/EASST Conference