Dr Oliver Pritchard Moore

About

Oliver is a sociologist of science and technology studies. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the ARIA-funded project, Futuring Biological Commons.

He previously completed a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD at the Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter. His research explores care practices, the production and circulation of scientific knowledge, the representation of non-human animals and the environment, and the power dynamics between scientific experts, non-scientific experts, and institutions.

After his PhD Oliver worked on an EU Horizons project, trans4num, which is investigating the use of nature-based solutions and how to create transformation pathways for greater up-take of sustainable agricultural practices and nutrient management. Oliver’s role focused on stakeholder engagement and understanding how farmers and farm advisors engaged with agricultural science research.

Research Interests

• Creative and innovative approaches to qualitative research – specifically interviews, oral histories and focus groups – and approaches that look to reveal multi-sensory connections to science and nature.
• Ideas and concepts about how society interacts with and imagines the natural world and the role science and technology plays in it.
• Acquisition, application, and dissemination of scientific knowledge and the differences between scientific experts and non-scientific experts.
• More-than-human and human-animal relationships.
• Nutrition science.
• Agricultural science.
• Sustainability / environments
• Care practices in everyday science.

Publications:

• Pritchard-Moore O. (Forthcoming), ‘Care, display, and salvation: (Zoo)biopower and the zoo veterinarian’, in., An introduction to Veterinary Humanities, ed., Carol Gray, Alison Skipper, Ruth Serlin, Routledge.
• Pritchard-Moore, O. (Forthcoming), ‘How do monkeys make toast? Animal health and history in the environmental humanities’, in., The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities., ed., Victoria Bates, Amber Abrams, Rocio Gomez, Routledge