Bio
Kean Birch is the director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society, Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy, and professor in the Science & Technology Studies (STS) Graduate Program and Department of Science, Technology & Society at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich, in Germany.
Kean is the co-editor of the leading international STS journal Science as Culture, published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and series editor of the Technoscience and Society book series at University of Toronto Press. His most recent books are Data Enclaves published by Palgrave Macmillan and Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, co-edited with Fabian Muniesa and open-access published by MIT Press.