Dr. Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice in the School of Arts and Culture at Newcastle University, UK. Her current research includes the critical and intersectional study of science, applied to climate change, bodies, and health, as well as research on consent, sexuality, and restorative justice. Dr. Sikka also works in the areas of decolonisation, bordering practices, and DEI.

Dr. Sikka’s book, Health Apps, Genetic Diets, and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023), uses autoethnography, science and technology studies, and new materialism to examine what constitutes ‘good health’ and explore possibilities for enacting health justice. Her previous book, Sex, Consent, and Justice: A New Feminist Framework (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) offers a novel approach to sexual ethics and transformative forms of justice using case studies from #MeToo, while her first book, Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable (2019), draws on feminist science studies to explore the science underpinning solar climate engineering. 

Dr. Sikka has published articles in such noted journals as Sexuality, Gender and Policy, The Nordic Journal in Feminist and Gender Research; The Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture; and Food, Culture, Society. She has also contributed interviews, articles and expertise to public-facing media outlets including Huffpost, Jacobin, Public Seminar, and The Conversation. She is an avid podcaster, appearing on both academic and popular podcasts, and has been invited to speak at international conferences, symposia, and corporate panels. 

Dr. Sikka’s work on EDI, and current role as Director of EDI in The School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, has led to invitations to lead workshops and she acts as a consultant on race, gender, and the workplace, cancel culture, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the public and private sectors.