I was delighted to be featured, alongside my Birkbeck colleague Prof. Roger Luckhurst,  in a recent radio programme on BBC Radio 3. Titled “The Robots Are Us” and presented by Ken Hollings, the programme looked at the legacy of Karel Čapek’s play Rossum’s Universal...

My brilliant colleague Amy Butt and I were invited to make a 45-minute programme for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on the subject of “Science Fiction.” The programme was recorded in late February, shortly before lockdown, and broadcast on 15 April 2020. It features Amy and I...

After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I was thrilled to be invited by BBC radio producer Phil Tinline to contribute to a radio...

As part of the Moon Landing in Context project, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on 20th July 1969, I’ve been asked to compile a list of lunar narratives in science fiction. The project aims to contextualise the Moon Landing within the historical, social, and...

As part of an ongoing public engagement project on "Communicating the relevance of speculative fiction to different publics" I've been working on between 2017 – 2018, I was really pleased to be awarded Birkbeck Public Engagement RCUK funding to make a short film. The...

I'm really thrilled to announce that the Museum of London has recently installed my curated display "Imagined Futures." The display was commissioned as part of the year-long "City Now: City Future" programme of events and the beautiful design work was...

Kim Stanley Robinson and Francis Spufford in conversation with Adam Roberts, 3 April 2017. This review originally appeared on the Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities staff blog (click here to view the original post). A recent author event at Waterstones Piccadilly (Europe’s...

As part of BBC Radio 4's Mars Season in March 2017, I was invited onto Woman's Hour for a live broadcast about "Women on Mars." Having featured in the documentary "A New Red World" produced by Mark Burman and presented by Ken Hollings, I was really thrilled to...

I was delighted to be involved in the making of a documentary for BBC Radio 4 on the subject of Martian utopias. Broadcast in March 2017 as part of Radio 4's Mars Season, the documentary — titled "A New Red World" — featured several clips in which I discussed how the...

Review of the Royal Academy’s new exhibition, “Revolution, Russian Art 1917-1932” This review originally appeared on the Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities staff blog (click here to view the original post). One hundred years after the Russian Revolution of 1917,...

I was recently invited onto BBC Radio 3's late-night programme "Free Thinking" to take part in a live broadcast discussing the literary Weird. Since co-editing an essay collection on China Miéville, China Miéville: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015), I've been...

I was recently interviewed for a BBC One documentary about the life of H. G. Wells, titled 'Future Tense: The Story of H. G. Wells.' Broadcast on television on 16 September 2016, the documentary was part of a range of events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Wells' birth,...

The BBC World Service invited me to be interviewed for a programme titled "Crunch Lit," which explored the rise in recent novels and plays dealing with the 2008 financial crash and post-2008 economic conditions. Journalist Audrey Tinline was interested in examining the way in which...

I've been invited to take part in the BFI Voyager Virtual Festival on Science Fiction, which is being co-organised by the BFI and HarperCollins' Harper Voyager Books imprint, which publishes leading fantasy and science fiction. The virtual festival is taking place on...

I was approached by the BBC production team in October 2014 to consult on a Science Fiction timeline that they were organising, to advertise the BBC's forthcoming Science Fiction iPlayer 3-part documentary. You can view the timeline by clicking on the image below, or visiting the...

On Tuesday 8th July 2014, I'll be doing a Tweet Chat Q&A for the UK academic jobs website jobs.ac.uk – from 12.45pm GMT for one hour. The discussion will be taking place on the dedicated #jobsQ hashtag, which brings together postgraduate students and early career...

The debate over "gold" open access in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was explored in February in the Times Higher Education cover story. The article featured interview material with Dr Martin Paul Eve and myself, as Academic Project Directors of the Open Library of...

In January 2013, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) project that I co-direct with Dr Martin Eve was in its early stages of launching as an international network of academics, publishers and open source software developers. We were fortunate to receive a large amount of media coverage in the...

In April 2013, my PhD student Chris Callow and I co-organised a conference dedicated to SF writer and academic Adam Roberts titled "New Genre Army: An International Conference on the Writing of Adam Roberts." The conference is part of the Gylphi "Contemporary Writers:...

On 14th-15th September 2012 Tony Venezia and I co-organised a 2-day academic conference dedicated to the writing of China Miéville, called "Weird Council: An International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville." The conference was...