Dr Emma Garnett

About me:

I have an interdisciplinary background and much of my work speaks to the field of science and technology studies. Through my research I employ ethnographic and engaged methods to investigate the knowledge and material politics of science. I am particularly interested in how problems of air quality and atmospheric composition challenge conventional biomedical and technical responses, and the ways they are in turn demanding new transdisciplinary approaches to human and environmental health. These ideas have been informed by a series of funded projects exploring environmental pollution in connection to practices of sensing and embodiment; the politics of data and citizen science; experiences of breathing and respiratory health; and changing notions of causality and exposure.

Broad research specialisms:

• Health Geographies
• Feminist technoscience
• Critical public health
• Critical data studies
• Digital sociology
• New materialisms

Interests:

• Health Geographies
• Feminist technoscience
• Critical public health
• Critical data studies
• Digital sociology
• New materialisms

Qualifications:

BA Hons in History, Newcastle University

MA in Social Anthropology of Development, School of Oriental and African Studies

PhD in Social Studies of Science, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Career:

I joined Exeter Geography as a Senior Lecturer at the end of 2022. I previously held research and teaching positions in the School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences at King’s College London and the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. At King’s College London I led an ESRC New Investigator Award that involved working with computer scientists, air quality scientists, clinicians, and epidemiologists to understand urban air pollution exposure and how the health risks it poses are experienced in the daily lives of young people with asthma in India and the UK.