F Wickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 27508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Wickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickson |
| SIGNATURE | WICKSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | GenØk |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2841-4155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 372 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies
Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies
Growing through transformation pains
Current frameworks for sustainability competences give insufficient attention to competencies for holding and processing difficult emotions such as ecological grief and eco-anxiety. This is despite emotional distress caused by environmental crises becoming a rapidly growing field of investigation and the ability to cope with such emotions an increasingly apparent need within sustainability research, education, and practice communities. To effecti…
Bridging different perspectives for biocultural conservation
Native maize conservation rests on the custody of traditional and indigenous small-scale farmers, but their traditional practices and way of life are challenged by multiple forces associated with globalization, international trade and neoliberal agricultural policies. Through participatory art-based research with two indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, we identified the main challenges and strategies for native maize conservation, as percei…
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Responsible Research Is Not Good Science
Just Existing Is Resisting
The attempt to have coexistence between organic, conventional and genetically modified (GM) crops has generated unresolved frictions between agro-food models based on different practices, values, worldviews and cultures. This article explores forms of everyday resistance that have emerged against the domineering power and spread of GM maize in Spain, the gateway nation for GM crops in Europe. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic work and interview…
Do We Care About Synbiodiversity? Questions Arising from an Investigation into Whether There are GM Crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides a backup of seed collections from genebanks around the world. It’s unique character has made it iconic in the public imagination as a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for crop plants. Its remote location and strict controls on access have, however, also lent it an air of mystery, swirling with conspiracy theories. In this paper, I first clarify the aims of the Vault, the history of its development and the policies and practice…
Broadening the lens for the governance of emerging technologies
Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials
Risk analysis (encompassing risk assessment, management, and communication) is touted internationally as the most appropriate approach for governing nanomaterials. In this article, we survey existing criticisms of risk assessment as a basis for regulatory decision making on emerging technologies, particularly highlighting its exclusion of key societal dimensions, its epistemological underdetermination, and its lack of democratic accountability. W…
Quality criteria and indicators for responsible research and innovation
The concept of ‘responsible innovation’ (RI) or ‘responsible research and innovation’ (RRI) is rapidly gaining currency. However, a persistent critique is that without more concrete elaboration, the interpretive flexibility of the concept is so broad as to effectively render it meaningless. The articulation of quality criteria and indicators therefore seems crucial for RRI to be understood and operationalized by researchers, research funders, inn…
Environmental protection goals, policy & publics in the European regulation of GMOs
The Scientific Revolution [Fiction]
Good evening good people of planet earth and welcome to the program! Tonight we are chatting with Sam Willis, founder and spokesperson for the new political party standing at this year's global election. They are calling themselves the “Intellectual” party and claiming to bring a shade of “White” to the political spectrum. Welcome to the program Sam! Perhaps you could begin by telling us a little bit about why the party started and what it's all …
Tratando as nanopartículas com precaução
Invenções científicas e tecnologias, como a nanotecnologia, interagem com sistemas ecológicos e sociais complexos em vários níveis e têm o potencial de causar consequências ímpares e sem precedentes. Isso traz desafios para abordagens de avaliação de risco convencionais, as quais pressupõem que não apenas é possível prever os riscos potenciais de novas tecnologias com precisão através de métodos científicos, mas também que existe uma clara distin…
Public engagement coming of age
In this paper, we present a study of Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives on public engagement, specifically focusing on the gap between theory and practice. In aiming to develop a conceptual map of this gap, we identify five top topics of tension. These are related to the general questions of: “Why should we do public engagement?,” “Who should be involved?,” “How should it be organised?,” “When should it be done?” and “Where should …
Imag(in)ing the Nano-scale
The TD Wheel
Reliability rating and reflective questioning
The governance of emerging technologies is frequently constructed around risk assessment processes. However, when risk assessment as a decision-making tool is applied to controversial fields such as genetic modification, stem cell research and nano-scaled science and technology, inherent uncertainties and conflicting social values arise to challenge the adequacy of traditional approaches. In this paper, I propose a framework through which risk as…
Transdisciplinarity
From risk to uncertainty in the regulation of GMOs
A realist discourse of risk currently dominates regulatory decision making for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This paper challenges the appropriateness of this for regulating the environmental impact of GMOs. Discussing psychometric research, cultural theory and the development of typologies of uncertainty, I argue that there is an emerging theoretical shift away from a singular focus on quantifying risk, and towards the articulation of d…
Social and Ethical Interactions with Nano
Transdisciplinary research
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Transdisciplinary research
The TD Wheel
Transdisciplinarity
Broadening the lens for the governance of emerging technologies
Responsible Research Is Not Good Science
Do We Care About Synbiodiversity? Questions Arising from an Investigation into Whether There are GM Crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides a backup of seed collections from genebanks around the world. It’s unique character has made it iconic in the public imagination as a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for crop plants. Its remote location and strict controls on access have, however, also lent it an air of mystery, swirling with conspiracy theories. In this paper, I first clarify the aims of the Vault, the history of its development and the policies and practice…
Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials
Risk analysis (encompassing risk assessment, management, and communication) is touted internationally as the most appropriate approach for governing nanomaterials. In this article, we survey existing criticisms of risk assessment as a basis for regulatory decision making on emerging technologies, particularly highlighting its exclusion of key societal dimensions, its epistemological underdetermination, and its lack of democratic accountability. W…
Growing through transformation pains
Current frameworks for sustainability competences give insufficient attention to competencies for holding and processing difficult emotions such as ecological grief and eco-anxiety. This is despite emotional distress caused by environmental crises becoming a rapidly growing field of investigation and the ability to cope with such emotions an increasingly apparent need within sustainability research, education, and practice communities. To effecti…
Just Existing Is Resisting
The attempt to have coexistence between organic, conventional and genetically modified (GM) crops has generated unresolved frictions between agro-food models based on different practices, values, worldviews and cultures. This article explores forms of everyday resistance that have emerged against the domineering power and spread of GM maize in Spain, the gateway nation for GM crops in Europe. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic work and interview…
Reliability rating and reflective questioning
The governance of emerging technologies is frequently constructed around risk assessment processes. However, when risk assessment as a decision-making tool is applied to controversial fields such as genetic modification, stem cell research and nano-scaled science and technology, inherent uncertainties and conflicting social values arise to challenge the adequacy of traditional approaches. In this paper, I propose a framework through which risk as…
Social and Ethical Interactions with Nano
Transdisciplinary research
From risk to uncertainty in the regulation of GMOs
A realist discourse of risk currently dominates regulatory decision making for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This paper challenges the appropriateness of this for regulating the environmental impact of GMOs. Discussing psychometric research, cultural theory and the development of typologies of uncertainty, I argue that there is an emerging theoretical shift away from a singular focus on quantifying risk, and towards the articulation of d…
Social and Ethical Interactions with Nano
Transdisciplinarity
Reliability rating and reflective questioning
The governance of emerging technologies is frequently constructed around risk assessment processes. However, when risk assessment as a decision-making tool is applied to controversial fields such as genetic modification, stem cell research and nano-scaled science and technology, inherent uncertainties and conflicting social values arise to challenge the adequacy of traditional approaches. In this paper, I propose a framework through which risk as…
The TD Wheel
Public engagement coming of age
In this paper, we present a study of Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives on public engagement, specifically focusing on the gap between theory and practice. In aiming to develop a conceptual map of this gap, we identify five top topics of tension. These are related to the general questions of: “Why should we do public engagement?,” “Who should be involved?,” “How should it be organised?,” “When should it be done?” and “Where should …
Imag(in)ing the Nano-scale
The Scientific Revolution [Fiction]
Good evening good people of planet earth and welcome to the program! Tonight we are chatting with Sam Willis, founder and spokesperson for the new political party standing at this year's global election. They are calling themselves the “Intellectual” party and claiming to bring a shade of “White” to the political spectrum. Welcome to the program Sam! Perhaps you could begin by telling us a little bit about why the party started and what it's all …
Tratando as nanopartículas com precaução
Invenções científicas e tecnologias, como a nanotecnologia, interagem com sistemas ecológicos e sociais complexos em vários níveis e têm o potencial de causar consequências ímpares e sem precedentes. Isso traz desafios para abordagens de avaliação de risco convencionais, as quais pressupõem que não apenas é possível prever os riscos potenciais de novas tecnologias com precisão através de métodos científicos, mas também que existe uma clara distin…
Quality criteria and indicators for responsible research and innovation
The concept of ‘responsible innovation’ (RI) or ‘responsible research and innovation’ (RRI) is rapidly gaining currency. However, a persistent critique is that without more concrete elaboration, the interpretive flexibility of the concept is so broad as to effectively render it meaningless. The articulation of quality criteria and indicators therefore seems crucial for RRI to be understood and operationalized by researchers, research funders, inn…
Environmental protection goals, policy & publics in the European regulation of GMOs
Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials
Risk analysis (encompassing risk assessment, management, and communication) is touted internationally as the most appropriate approach for governing nanomaterials. In this article, we survey existing criticisms of risk assessment as a basis for regulatory decision making on emerging technologies, particularly highlighting its exclusion of key societal dimensions, its epistemological underdetermination, and its lack of democratic accountability. W…
Do We Care About Synbiodiversity? Questions Arising from an Investigation into Whether There are GM Crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides a backup of seed collections from genebanks around the world. It’s unique character has made it iconic in the public imagination as a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for crop plants. Its remote location and strict controls on access have, however, also lent it an air of mystery, swirling with conspiracy theories. In this paper, I first clarify the aims of the Vault, the history of its development and the policies and practice…
Broadening the lens for the governance of emerging technologies
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Responsible Research Is Not Good Science
Just Existing Is Resisting
The attempt to have coexistence between organic, conventional and genetically modified (GM) crops has generated unresolved frictions between agro-food models based on different practices, values, worldviews and cultures. This article explores forms of everyday resistance that have emerged against the domineering power and spread of GM maize in Spain, the gateway nation for GM crops in Europe. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic work and interview…
Bridging different perspectives for biocultural conservation
Native maize conservation rests on the custody of traditional and indigenous small-scale farmers, but their traditional practices and way of life are challenged by multiple forces associated with globalization, international trade and neoliberal agricultural policies. Through participatory art-based research with two indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, we identified the main challenges and strategies for native maize conservation, as percei…
Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies
Growing through transformation pains
Current frameworks for sustainability competences give insufficient attention to competencies for holding and processing difficult emotions such as ecological grief and eco-anxiety. This is despite emotional distress caused by environmental crises becoming a rapidly growing field of investigation and the ability to cope with such emotions an increasingly apparent need within sustainability research, education, and practice communities. To effecti…
Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Knowledge management (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Social science (7 works)