Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda

Elliot is an environmental social scientist interested in the intersections between environmental knowledge, technology, society, and politics. This includes exploring how environmental knowledge is made and circulates between different arenas (including academia, public life, digital worlds - including video games) and how this knowledge can (re)shape social and political orders.

My PhD research 'Scientising the Environment' looked at the history of ENV here at UEA to explore how the 'environment' became an object of knowledge to be made known through scientific interdisciplinarity. I explored through four case studies how ENV came to be imagined and founded at UEA in the 1960s, how interdisciplinarity figured and was practiced in the first decade and how the physical 'environmental sciences' evolved to include climate and social sciences - from the local to the global. I conclude by resituating histories of the 'environmental sciences' in conceptual and practical debates about the 'Anthropocene'. I completed this study in 2022.

I am now working as a postdoc with Public Engagement Laboratory for Nature and Society, an ongoing collaboration between UEA and Natural England that maps and experiments with diverse forms of participation with nature and biodiversity.