Bio
Kean Birch is 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. From 2026 to 2027, he is also a visiting professor in the Department of Management, Society, and Communication at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark — funded by the Otto Mønsted Foundation. Previously, 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).