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Research
Latest papers
Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens.
Social studies of science · 2025 · senior author
Assetization and the 'new asset geographies'.
Dialogues in human geography · 2024 · first author
Struggling over new asset geographies.
Dialogues in human geography · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $156,989
Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $20,000
PAIQ: Partnership for artificial intelligence and quality of working lives and worker well-being
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $103,187
Digital Data Value Paradox: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Data Valuation
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
12 publications.
Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens.
Miroshnichenko A, Birch K
Assetization and the 'new asset geographies'.
Birch K, Ward C
Struggling over new asset geographies.
Birch K, Ward C
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach.
Amuchastegui M, Birch K, Kaltenbrunner W
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation.
Birch K
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies.
Kaltenbrunner W, Birch K, van Leeuwen T, Amuchastegui M
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals.
Kaltenbrunner W, Birch K, Amuchastegui M
Interview with Prof. Kean Birch, York University. Sustainability and Low Carbon Futures: A Canadian Bioeconomy Strategy?
Birch K
Stop the Spam! Conference Ethics and Decoding the Subtext in Post-Truth Science. What Would Denis Diderot Say?
Özdemir V, Dandara C, Hekim N, Birch K, Springer S, Kunej T, Endrenyi L
Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy: Finance, Assetization, and the Management of Value.
Birch K
Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
PAIQ: Partnership for artificial intelligence and quality of working lives and worker well-being
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; work environment; worker well-being; job quality; labour market inequities; living review; labour force data analysis; ethnographic research; integrated knowledge transfer and exchange
Digital Data Value Paradox: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Data Valuation
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: personal data; data asset; data value; digital economy
Digital Data Value Paradox: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Data Valuation
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: personal data; data asset; data value; digital economy
Rethinking Canada's Competition Policy in the Digital Economy
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: competition policy; big tech; personal data; privacy; data governance; data valuation
Ghost-management in the pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical sectors: Dynamics and implications for Canadian political economy
Principal investigators: Gagnon, Marc-Andre
Keywords: ghost-management; business organizations; pharmaceuticals; agricultural chemicals; regulatory capture; techno-scientific capitalism; scientific capture; civil society capture; collaboration agreements; conflicts of interest
The changing landscape of academic journal publishing and its impact on interdisciplinary social science fields: The case of science & technology studies (STS)
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: (1) Academic publishing; (2) Digital technologies; (3) Science and technology studies
From entrepreneurship to rentiership: the changing dynamics of innovation in technoscientific capitalism
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: rentiership; technoscientific capitalism; innovation studies; financing innovation; political economy of technoscience
Adapting Canadian work and workplaces to respond to climate change: Canada in international perspective
Keywords: climate change and work; sociology of work; environment/economic change; social dimensions of climate change; industrial relations and climate change
Transitioning from a fossil(ized) to a bio-based economy: A Case Study of Biofuels in the Canadian Context
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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