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Molly Rose Bond is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Social and Political Science. Her research interests encompass interdisciplinary dimensions of the relationships between people, nature, and technology. She has focused ethnographically on emerging food plant politics, particularly in the context of synthetic biology and lab-grown food, examining their implications for established food cultures and agricultural livelihoods. Key components of her research involve the governance of synthetic biology and digital biopiracy, and she has actively participated in UN Biodiversity COP meetings. In 2023, she was awarded a grant to develop her work into a book titled 'Unearthing Stevia's Promise,' expected to be published in 2026. Her broad research specialisms include plant politics, agrarian futures, de/anti-colonial feminist Science & Technology Studies, global bioeconomy, and political ecology.
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