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SUMMARY:Under Pressure and Moonlight: The Visibility Continuum of Global Helium Supply Chains for Nuclear Fusion Energy
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Deep Tech and Society seminar series. This session is hybrid: join online\, or in person in Glasgow. Free and open to all; register through Microsoft Teams. \nThis paper examines how critical infrastructure networks are politically concealed\, tracing how the global supply chains of helium isotopes fluctuate across a dynamic visibility continuum. By interrogating the hidden spaces of global logistics\, we trace how resource access thresholds shape the development of next-generation nuclear fusion energy architectures. Drawing from William Davies’ (2019) political economy of infrastructure\, we map how these resource corridors are engineered to remain hidden from public view under a mask of consumer ignorance until a systemic bottleneck triggers a sudden\, hyper-visible fracture. \nMethodologically\, this research pairs critical human geography with a data-driven QGIS spatial modelling matrix to track coordinate-specific shipping vectors\, state military enclosures\, and corporate aerospace entities. The findings reveal that each stage of the helium network is governed by a distinct spatial threshold. Helium-4 transportation is bound by high-cost cryogenic containers and a strict 45-to-60-day pressure lifespan\, rendering it vulnerable to maritime chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz. Conversely\, terrestrial Helium-3 remains locked behind sovereign state military secrecy walls\, restricted by the fixed 12-year subatomic half-life of tritium decay. \nWe argue that this acute terrestrial scarcity violently forces private venture capital off-world to enclose the lunar commons under the legal shields of the Artemis Accords. Ultimately\, this paper demonstrates that a viable nuclear fusion future demands an interdisciplinary critical infrastructure framework that equally prioritises every node in the supply chain matrix. \nAbout the speakers\nEleanor S. Armstrong is a Space Research Fellow at the University of Leicester\, UK. Armstrong is Early Career Research Lead at the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space; and she leads the Constellations Lab on Feminist Approaches to Outer Space. Her research focuses on (1) queer feminist approaches to materials and heritage\, particularly the presentation of femininities\, feminisms\, and femmes in public discourses about outer space\, and (2) the materiality of outer supply chain materialities of outer space. Her first book “Exhibiting Outer Space” is under contract with Routledge’s Museums in Focus series. Armstrong is co-lead of the international biannual conference ‘Space Science in Context’ with Divya M. Persaud; and co-developer of the design studio EXO-MOAN with Akvile Terminaité. \nAamina Azam is a third-year Geography student at the University of Cambridge. Over the summer\, she worked as a research intern for the FOSTER project run by the UK Atomic Energy Agency\, focusing on critical human geography\, geopolitical infrastructures\, and the material supply chains of emerging deep-tech and energy sectors. Her project mapped the complex spatial and temporal vulnerabilities of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial helium supply networks for the next-generation nuclear fusion sector.
URL:https://deeptech.glasgow.ac.uk/events/under-pressure-and-moonlight-the-visibility-continuum-of-global-helium-supply-chains-for-nuclear-fusion-energy/
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SUMMARY:Defence\, Security and Securitisation: Reconfiguring European Research and Innovation Policy
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Deep Tech and Society online seminar series. Free and open to all; register through Microsoft Teams. \nThis talk examines how the proposed European research and innovation framework for 2028–2034 is repositioning universities/RSOs and scientific capabilities within an emerging defence–competitiveness–security nexus. Focusing on the planned links among Horizon Europe\, the European Competitiveness Fund and the specific programme for defence research and innovation\, it asks whether this architecture is eroding the long-standing institutional separation between civilian research funding and defence-oriented instruments. \nThis transformation is especially consequential for emerging fields that drive deep-tech development and may generate future strategic capabilities. It also reflects a broader shift in innovation practice: whereas technology transfer was long understood primarily as the movement of technologies from military research to civilian applications\, innovation increasingly flows in the opposite direction\, as commercially developed and civilian technologies are adapted for security and defence purposes. Thereby contributing to an intensifying military–civil fusion. \nEmpirically\, the talk analyses the Commission’s proposals for Horizon Europe 2028–2034 and the European Competitiveness Fund\, alongside the European Economic Security Strategy\, the research-security agenda\, STEP and the expansion of European defence innovation. It traces the developments: the alignment of frontier research with strategic priorities; the creation of a pathway from research and experimentation to industrial deployment and defence capability; and the protection of infrastructures\, collaborations and knowledge transfers against security risks. The talk argues that the next Framework Programme forms part of a wider investment and security architecture in which competitiveness\, technological sovereignty and defence readiness reinforce one another\, bringing defence and dual-use objectives into the mainstream of research and innovation policy. This raises fundamental questions about the civilian orientation of EU research funding\, the distribution of authority between research and strategic policy\, and the safeguards required to protect academic freedom\, basic research\, proportionality and responsible international cooperation. \nAbout the speaker\nHarald Kleinberger-Pierer is a research manager and historian of economics\, with a focus on Research Organization\, Responsible Research and Innovation\, and the History of Science and Technology. He is part of the Research Security Team and the Support Team for International Funding Programs within Research Management at the University of Graz. In this role\, he contributes to several initiatives like the Research Security bottom-up initiative in the Arqus European University Alliance. In addition\, he is a lecturer for Ethics and Technology Assessment.
URL:https://deeptech.glasgow.ac.uk/events/defence-security-and-securitisation-reconfiguring-european-research-and-innovation-policy/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Critical Fusions: Responsible Innovation at the Intersection of AI and Clean Energy
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Deep Tech and Society online seminar series. Free and open to all; register through Microsoft Teams. \nAs AI systems drive unprecedented energy demand\, fusion is increasingly positioned as a potential\, though as yet unproven\, pathway to abundant\, low-carbon power. At the same time\, AI is accelerating fusion research\, from optimising plasma control to enabling complex reactor simulations. The convergence of these technologies nonetheless raises pressing questions about environmental impact\, governance\, and societal trust. \nThis research interrogates how fusion energy is increasingly positioned as part of the solution to the “AI sustainability problem” embedded within future energy infrastructure\, as well as how AI proposes to accelerate fusion energy development. In order to critically examine the interplay of these two technologies\, we ask: How does technological promise influence research priorities\, investment\, and governance? What pathways would be required for expectations to become reality? What are the potential social\, ethical\, environmental and political consequences of these converging narratives? \nWe examine the emerging relationship between AI and fusion energy through the lens of responsible innovation\, simultaneously acknowledging risks (e.g. technical\, social and environmental) while identifying opportunities for sustainable\, ethical\, and socially responsive innovation. Building on results from semi-structured interviews with technical developers\, policy-makers and civil society actors\, the project will also explore stakeholder expectations and the proposed routes to achieving the potential of these combined technologies responsibly. This approach is both critical and hopeful\, seeking to inform policy and research strategies that move beyond hype toward actionable solutions. \nAbout the speaker\nSophie Cogan is a PhD candidate at the University of York where her thesis\, ‘Envisioned\, Experienced\, and Embedded: Dynamics of Values in UK Fusion Energy Development’\, explored how values enter\, interact\, and become embedded in the development of an emerging energy technology. Alongside her research\, she co-founded the Open Fusion Collective platform\, a space for open discussion on the social and ethical dimensions of fusion energy development. Her current research interests look more broadly to the philosophy and politics of science and technology\, but focus on the ethics of emerging technologies and sociotechnical futures.
URL:https://deeptech.glasgow.ac.uk/events/critical-fusions-responsible-innovation-at-the-intersection-of-ai-and-clean-energy/
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SUMMARY:Recursive Frontierisation: The Interconnections Between Defence Institutions and Private Financial Capital in the Production of Frontier Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Deep Tech and Society online seminar series. Free and open to all; register through Microsoft Teams. \nAbstract to follow. \nAbout the speaker\nDaniel is a PhD candidate in Geography at Northumbria University. His research\, situated at the intersection between Political Geography and Financial Geography\, is investigating the entanglements between the military\, space and defence industries\, and private financial capital in the production of ‘frontier technologies’ in the United States\, particularly along the Rio Grande. Daniel has completed fieldwork in the United States\, with a further fieldwork visit scheduled for early 2027. Outside academia\, Daniel is on the advisory board for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
URL:https://deeptech.glasgow.ac.uk/events/recursive-frontierisation-the-interconnections-between-defence-institutions-and-private-financial-capital-in-the-production-of-frontier-technologies/
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SUMMARY:New Technologies Won’t Save Us\, but Here’s Something That Might
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Deep Tech and Society online seminar series. Free and open to all; register through Microsoft Teams. \nEnvironmental degradation and global wealth inequality are critical challenges today. Many promote high-tech solutions as silver bullets—yet these technologies often rely on scarce resources\, precarious labour\, and questionable extraction practices. Can technologies that may worsen these issues truly solve our problems? Join this discussion as we explore alternatives: mid-tech\, commons-based approaches\, and open cooperativism. We’ll examine how decentralised governance and digital commons might create more equitable technological futures and envision technology that serves humanity and our planet. \nAbout the speaker\nVasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. He also serves as Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2018\, he received a European Research Council grant to study how to create a sustainable economy through the commons. Vasilis combines theoretical research with practical action\, co-building spaces for creative resistance and commons-based alternatives.
URL:https://deeptech.glasgow.ac.uk/events/new-technologies-wont-save-us-but-heres-something-that-might/
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