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Dr Declan Kuch

Dr Declan Kuch

Visiting Fellow

PhD

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

I'm a Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at UNSW. My research covers climate change, energy policy and the social dimensions of the life sciences. I jointly hold the position (together with Dr. Sophie Adams) of Operating Agent for Australia's involvement with the User-Centred Energy Systems Technology Collaboration Program under the International Energy Agency. I also co-lead (with Prof. Matthew Kearnes) the Social Dimensions stream of ARC Centre of Excellence in CBNS. My primary research involves the social, ethical and political dimensions of targeted therapies and precision medicine.

I have also published widely on topics related to climate change policy and energy, including ‘The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading’ (2015, Palgrave McMillan’s Energy and Environment Series edited by David Elliot). I have consulted to the Australian Council of Learned Academies on public engagement with technology.
E-mail
d.kuch@unsw.edu.au
Location
227 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2015
    Kuch DL, 2015, The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave MacMillan, London, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Carbon-Emissions-Trading/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137490377
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2020, 'Diverse legalities: Pluralism and Instrumentalism', in Gibson K; Dombrowski K (ed.), Handbook of Diverse Economies, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 323 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962.00047
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Kuch D; Stringer N; Marshall L; Young S; Roberts M; Macgill I; Bruce A; Passey R, 2019, 'An Energy Data Manifesto', in Good Data, Institute of Networked Cultures, Amsterdam, pp. 77 - 93, http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2017, 'Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism', in Assembling Neoliberalism, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 219 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_11
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2017, 'Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism', in Higgins V; Larner W (ed.), Assembling Neoliberalism, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 219 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Governing Carbon Emissions: NSW GGAS', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 60 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_4
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Conclusion: Beyond 8%: Resituating Emissions Trading', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 163 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_8
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Introduction', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_1
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'Marketizing Civil Regulation: Acid Rain Regulation as the Experimental Bridge to Carbon Markets', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 29 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_3
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Paradox of Measurable Counterfactuals and the Fall of Emissions Trading', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 148 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_7
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Rise of Emissions Trading as a Market Mechanism and the Promise of ‘Civilized Markets’', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 13 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_2
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The Technopolitics of National Carbon Accounts', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 95 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_5
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, '‘Economists in the Wild’: Clean Development and the Global Politics of Carbon Offsets', in The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 120 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490384_6
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Fröhlich P; Henriksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2022, 'Corrigendum to “Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand side management” (Energy Research & Social Science (2021) 80, (S2214629621003030), (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102210))', Energy Research and Social Science, 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102601
    Journal articles | 2022
    Green F; Kuch D, 2022, 'Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks', Global Environmental Politics, 22, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00654
    Journal articles | 2022
    Michellod JL; Kuch D; Winzer C; Patel MK; Yilmaz S, 2022, 'Building Social License for Automated Demand-Side Management—Case Study Research in the Swiss Residential Sector', Energies, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15207759
    Journal articles | 2022
    Miller G; Kuch D; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism', Minerva, 60, pp. 235 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09456-3
    Journal articles | 2022
    Phan T; Goldenfein J; Mann M; Kuch D, 2022, 'Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech', Science as Culture, 31, pp. 121 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1990875
    Journal articles | 2021
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Fröhlich P; Henriksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2021, 'Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management', Energy Research and Social Science, 80, pp. 102210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102210
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kuch D; Kearnes M; Gulson K, 2020, 'The promise of precision: datafication in medicine, agriculture and education', Policy Studies, 41, pp. 527 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2020.1724384
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kuch D, 2019, 'Locating Postgenomics – Precision Medicine, Justice and Democracy', BioSocieties, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00156-6
    Journal articles | 2018
    Kearnes M; Kuch D; Johnston A, 2018, 'How to do things with metaphors: Engineering life as hodgepodge', Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 14, pp. 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-018-0084-z
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kuch DL, 2017, '“Fixing” climate change through carbon capture and storage: situating industrial risk cultures', Futures, vol. 92, pp. 90 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.02.001
    Journal articles | 2016
    Morgan B; Kuch DL, 2016, 'The Socio-Legal Implications of the New Politics of Climate Change', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 39, pp. 1715 - 1740, http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/39-4-1.pdf
    Journal articles | 2015
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2015, 'Dissonant Justifications: an organisational perspective of support for Australian community energy', People, Place and Policy Online, 9, pp. 177 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0009.0003.0002
    Journal articles | 2015
    Morgan B; Kuch D, 2015, 'Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness, Diverse Economies, and the Sharing Economy', Journal of Law and Society, 42, pp. 556 - 587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00725.x
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kuch D, 2015, 'The politics of carbon markets, edited by Benjamin Stephan and Richard Lane (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy), London, Routledge, 2015, xiii + 284 pp., $155.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-707-13-8', Environmental Politics, vol. 24, pp. 844 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1055883
    Journal articles | 2014
    Kuch DL; Titus A, 2014, 'Emerging Dimensions of Networked Energy Citizenship: the case of Coal Seam Gas mobilization in Australia', Communication, Politics and Culture, vol. 47, pp. 35 - 59, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=820717668178881;res=IELAPA
    Journal articles | 2010
    Kuch D, 2010, 'Science studies comes to market', Metascience, vol. 19, pp. 489 - 492, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9433-0
    Journal articles | 2008
    Kuch D; Healy SA, 2008, 'Emissions trading: `Grip on reality` or just `trust in numbers`?', Australian Journal of Public Affairs
  • Reports | 2023
    Roberts M; Adams S; Samarakoon S; Kallmier E; Dillon M; Szczepaniak R; Passey R; Bruce A; Macgill I; Egan R; Kuch D, 2023, Energy resilience in bushfires and extreme weather events: Final report of the ESKIES project, https://energy-resilience.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ESKIES-Report-2023-08-17.pdf
    Preprints | 2021
    Adams S; Kuch D; Diamond L; Froehlich P; Henrisksen IM; Katzeff C; Ryghaug M; Yilmaz S, 2021, Social License to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management, http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/f8rud
    Reports | 2021
    Dagraville R; Anwar M; Tomka K; Thorpe A; Kuch D; Milton A; Hasan K; McGrath B; Meegahapola L; Tirunagari S; Jalili M; Newman P; Verschuer M; Economou D; James B; Hargroves C; Mouritz M; Dwyer S; Nagrath K; Paevere P; Spak B; Pellow M; Chhaya S; Barnfather P; Jafari B; Fick J, 2021, Electric vehicles and the grid, https://www.racefor2030.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N1-EV-Opportunity-Assessement-Report-FINAL_04112021.pdf
    Reports | 2020
    Roberts M; Adams S; Kuch D, 2020, VPP User Research - Final Report
    Other | 2017
    MacGill I; Bruce A; Kuch D; Marshall L; Stringer N, 2017, CEEM Submission to the Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market, Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market
    Reports | 2013
    Morgan B; Kuch D; Ngo J, 2013, Submission to Crowd-Sourced Equity Financing Enquiry (2013)
    Reports | 2013
    Kuch DL; Ladwig J; Titus A; Webb S, 2013, Managing Low Emissions Coal Technologies project risk: The role of public awareness, Coal Innovation Board of the NSW Department of Trade and Investment,

World Social Science Fellow (ISSC)

Social Studies of Science Society

Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Studies Network