Dr Chris Groves - Research Associate

Career Experience and Qualifications

Chris is a Research Associate at BRASS. He has a degree in Philosophy and Sociology (University of York), an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory (University of Warwick), and a PhD in Philosophy (University of Warwick). 

In 2005 Chris joined the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff as Research Associate on the ESRC Professorial Fellowship In Pursuit of the Future with Professor Barbara Adam. After the end of this project, in 2007 he worked on a six-month BBC-Trust funded project in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies which examined the way devolution in the UK is represented in the national media.

Research Areas of Interest

Environmental ethics and law; intergenerational ethics and sustainability; novel technologies; risk and regulation; sociology of risk and uncertainty; social theories of time; devolution and democratic politics in the United Kingdom.

Current Research Projects

Chris is currently working with Lori Frater and Robert Lee on the regulation of new technologies, with special reference to nanotechnology.

• Nanotechnologies

BRASS Working Papers

• Groves, C., Stokes, E., Lee, R., Frater, L and Oriola, T. (2008) 'Nanotechnology and the Regulatory Environment: A Synopsis', BRASS Working Paper Series number 48

BRASS Comment and Analysis

• Whose Nanotechnology?

 Reports

• An Examination of the Nature and Application among the Nanotechnologies Industries of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of Safeguarding the Environment and Human Health
  

Recent Publications 

Groves, C. (2011, forthcoming) “Public Engagement and Nanotechnology in the UK: restoring trust or building robustness?”, Science and Public Policy, 38(10) (available via publisher’s FastTrack as of July 2011). ISSN 0302-342

Groves, C. (2011, forthcoming) “The Political Imaginary of Care: Generic versus Singular Futures”, Journal of International Political Theory, 7(2).

Frater, L. Groves C, Lee, R. G. & Stokes, E. (2011) “Is There Room at the Bottom for CSR? Corporate Social Responsibility and Nanotechnology in the UK?”, Journal of Business Ethics, 101(4), pp. 525-552. ISSN: 0167-4544

Adam, B . and Groves, C. (2011) “Futures Tended: Care and Future-Oriented Responsibility”, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 31(1), pp. 17-27. ISSN: 0270-4676

Groves, C. (2010) ”The public perception of nanotechnology: is it all about risk?”, Nanotechnology Perceptions, 6(2), pp. 85-94. ISSN 1660-6795.

Groves, C. (2009) "Nanotechnology, Contingency and Finitude", Nanoethics, 3 (1), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1871-4757

Groves, C. (2009) "Future Ethics: Risk, Care and Non-Reciprocal Responsibility", Journal of Global Ethics, 5 (1), pp. 17-31. (published in tandem with a response by Professor Robin Attfield, Department of Philosophy, Cardiff)

Cushion, S., Groves, C. and Lewis, J. (2009) "Prioritizing hand-shaking over policy-making: A study of how the 2007 devolved elections was reported on BBC UK network coverage", Cyfrwng: Media Wales Journal 6. ISSN 1742-9234

Cushion, S., Groves, C. and Lewis, J. (2009) "Reflecting the Four Nations? An analysis of reporting devolution on UK network news media", Journalism Studies, 10(5), pp. 655-71.

Groves, C. (2008) “Nietzsche's Genealogy: Gay Science and Honest Lies”, New Nietzsche Studies, 8. ISSN 1461-670X

Groves, C. (2007) “The Humanities and the Shaping of Social Futures”, The International Journal of the Humanities, 5(4), pp. 49-54. ISSN 1447-9508

Groves, C. (2006) “Technological Futures and Non-Reciprocal Responsibility”, The International Journal of the Humanities, 4 (2), pp. 57-61 - awarded the International Award for Excellence in the Humanities 2006. ISSN 1447-9508

Groves, C. (2001) “Deleuze's Kant: Education and Enlightenment”, Philosophy Today, 45(1), 2001, pp. 77-94. ISSN 00318256.

Book Chapters

Grinbaum, A. and Groves, C. (2012, forthcoming), “What is ‘responsible’ about responsible innovation?”, in Richard Owen, John Bessant and Maggy Heintz, ed., Responsible Innovation, John Wiley and Sons.

Groves, C. (2011) “Intergenerational Justice”, in Dustin R. Mulvaney, ed., Green Politics: An A-Z Guide, SAGE Publishing. ISBN 9781412996792

Groves, C. (2010) “Environmental ethics/philosophy of nanotechnology”, in David Guston, ed., Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Society, SAGE Publishing. ISBN 9781412969871

 Groves, C. (2010) “Living in Uncertainty: The Limits of Risk Thinking”, in Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination, ed. Stefan Skrimshire, London: Continuum. ISBN 1441139583

Groves, C. (2010) "The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze", in Causality and Motivation, ed. Roberto Poli, Ontos Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86838-068-2

Other Articles

Groves, C. (2011) “Happiness and Uncertainty”, Open Democracy: Happiness Debate, July 2011.

Groves, C. (2010) “Small Tech in a Small Nation”, Planet 198 (July 2010).

Groves, C. (2010) "Living with Uncertainty: The South Wales LNG Pipeline and Terminals", Planet 195, pp. 66-73.

Groves, C. (2010) "Predict and Provide", Planet Extra, 15 July 2009.