Dr. Fiona Kinniburgh
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociology of ScienceFiona Kinniburgh is a postdoctoral researcher in the Chair of Sociology of Science. Combining perspectives from political science and Science and Technology Studies, her work broadly examines the roles of science and public policies in enabling deep societal transformations towards sustainability. Research projects that she is currently involved in examine science-policy interfaces in the production and use of climate information (“Climateurope2,” a Horizon Europe-funded project) and the risks and tradeoffs involved in negative emissions (“Negative emissions and the politics of a projected future,” in cooperation with Lund University). Her PhD in political science at the TUM Department of Governance, Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy investigated multi-level governance of transitions to sustainable agri-food systems and the role of expertise in policy processes, focusing on efforts to reduce or discontinue pesticide use at the international level and in the EU. Prior to joining TUM, she worked on agricultural and biodiversity policy at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris, for which she investigated the achievements and limitations of domestic measures to sustain biological diversity in five countries to inform the preparation of the post-2020 framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development from Columbia University (New York, USA) and her Master’s in Environmental Policy from Science Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (France).
- Governance of transformations towards sustainability
- Science-policy interfaces
- National and international policymaking relating to agriculture, biodiversity, chemicals, and climate change
- Politics of expertise
- Kinniburgh, F. (2023). The politics of expertise in France’s assessment of alternatives to glyphosate. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.01.017
- Santos, E. C., Kinniburgh, F., Schmid, S., Büttner, N., Pröbstl, F., Liswanti, N., … & Zinngrebe, Y. (2023). Mainstreaming revisited: Experiences from eight countries on the role of National Biodiversity Strategies in practice. Earth System Governance, 16, 100177. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811623000149
- Kinniburgh, F., Selin, H., Selin, N.E., Schreurs, M. (2022) “When private governance impedes multilateralism: the case of international pesticide governance.” Regulation & Governance. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rego.12463
- Zinngrebe, Y., Kinniburgh, F., Vijge, M., Khan, S., Runhaar, H. (2022). “Transforming Biodiversity Governance in agricultural landscapes: taking stock of Biodiversity Policy Integration and looking forward.” In Visseren-Hamakers, I., Kok, M. (Eds.), Transforming Biodiversity Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/transforming-biodiversity-governance/transformative-biodiversity-governance-in-agricultural-landscapes-taking-stock-of-biodiversity-policy-integration-and-looking-forward/0FFDE9F0DE8310799A19380418A54567
- Kinniburgh, F., Rankovic, A. (2019). “Mobilising the chemical conventions to protect biodiversity.” IDDRI, Issue Brief. 4p. https://www.iddri.org/en/publications-and-events/issue-brief/mobilising-chemical-conventions-protect-biodiversity
- Laurans, L., Rankovic, A., Kinniburgh, F., Colombier, M., Demailly, D., Treyer, S. (2018). “Relaunching the international ambition for biodiversity: a three-dimensional vision for the future of the Convention on Biological Diversity.” IDDRI, Issue Brief. 4p. https://www.iddri.org/en/publications-and-events/issue-brief/relaunching-international-ambition-biodiversity
- WiSe 2022-23, TUM Department of Science and Technology Studies: RESET Master’s Immersion Project, “Climate services: examining science-policy interfaces in the production and use of climate information”
- WiSe 2019-2020: TUM Department of Governance: Politics and Technology Master’s, “The Ethics and Politics of Global Risks Planning for Existential Risks of Global Environmental Change