Penny Harvey

Penny is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences. She is also Professor II in the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Penny has done long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Peru on the politics of knowledge, materiality and representation. Her published work focuses on (mis)communication, technology, infrastructure, expertise and the modern state. She currently leads The Beam research project on Holistic Decommissioning in the Nuclear Reprocessing Industry. Recent publications include Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (with H. Knox) Cornell University Press, 2015; and Infrastructures and Social Complexity (edited with Jensen and Morita), Routledge, 2017. Read more about Penny

A collaboration between The University of Manchester and National Nuclear Laboratory, this project will design what is known as a ‘hybrid forum’.

Led by The University of Manchester, this project addresses current debates in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and storage of nuclear waste in the UK.

Led by The University of Manchester, this project explores social and cultural processes of technological innovation in decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear site.

Meet Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester and co-founder of The Beam.