Can a robot be an expert? The social meaning of skill and its expression through the prospect of autonomous AgTech

K Legun, KA Burch, L Klerkx - Agriculture and Human Values, 2023 - Springer
Artificial intelligence and robotics have increasingly been adopted in agri-food systems—
from milking robots to self-driving tractors. New projects extend these technologies in an …

Social science–STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: an STSFAN manifesto

K Burch, J Guthman, M Gugganig, K Bronson… - Agriculture and Human …, 2023 - Springer
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this
Manifesto begins from the authors' experiences as social scientists working within …

Intellectual property meets transdisciplinary co-design: prioritizing responsiveness in the production of new AgTech through located response-ability

KA Burch, D Nafus, K Legun, L Klerkx - Agriculture and Human Values, 2023 - Springer
This paper explores the complex relationship between intellectual property (IP) and the
transdisciplinary collaborative design (co-design) of new digital technologies for agriculture …

Realising the promises of agricultural big data through a Māori Data Sovereignty approach

K Taiuru, K Burch, S Finlay-Smits - New Zealand Economic Papers, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This perspective piece considers how principles of Māori Data Sovereignty can bring us
closer to realising some of the social and environmental promises of new AgTech and the …

Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI

KA Burch, S Finlay-Smits… - Journal of Responsible …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this perspective piece, we reflect on our experiences as situated responsible innovation
(RI) practitioners working in the settler-colonial capitalist contexts of Australia and Aotearoa …

Anticolonial co-design: a methodology for including agricultural workers in the development of new AgTech

M O'Connor, KA Burch, S Gounder - Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Collaborative design (co-design) is becoming a popular method for including end-users in
the design process of technologies which may affect them. The research in this paper …