Author Biography: Dr. Darrin Durant is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on environmental controversies including climate politics and debates about nuclear power and nuclear waste disposal, as well as on the relation between experts and citizens in democratic decision-making, disinformation and democracy, and climate denialism. His most recent book is Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science (Palgrave, 2020). Of relevance to nuclear matters is Nuclear Waste Management in Canada: Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives (UBC Press, 2009), and he is currently completing a book on Australian debates about nuclear power 1998-2025 and has started a project on failed nuclear waste repository siting efforts in Australia.
