Publications

Single-authored

Books

Haapio-Kirk, L. (2024). Ageing with Smartphones in Japan. UCL Press. https://uclpress.co.uk/book/ageing-with-smartphones-in-japan/

Articles

Haapio-Kirk, L. (2024). 'Widening the Frame: Review of Nora Wuttke’s Hospital Echoes Installation'. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 42(1), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2024.420109
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2022) ‘Introduction’ (Special Theme: Ethno-Graphic Collaborations. Edited by Laura Haapio-Kirk). TRAJECTORIA. 2022. 3. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. https://trajectoria.minpaku.ac.jp/articles/2022/vol03/01_0.html
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2022). ‘Illustrating Anthropology.’ Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, July 28. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/laura-haapio-kirk
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2020). ‘Staying connected: Coronavirus in Japan’, entanglements, 3(2): 69-78 https://entanglementsjournal.wordpress.com/staying-connected-coronavirus-in-japan/
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2020). Book review: ‘Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan’ by Iza Kavedžija (2019). International Journal of Care and Caring, 4(3), 449-450.
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2018). Book Review: ‘Fassin, Didier (ed.). If truth be told: the politics of public ethnography’. 358 pp. Durham, NC.: Duke Univ. Press, 2017. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24(2), 415-416.
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2017) ‘Why We Post: Digital Methods for Public Anthropology’, Teaching Anthropology: A Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2017 Vol 7, No.1 pp 33-44.

Book chapters

Haapio-Kirk, L. (2025). 'Visual digital repertoires of care among older adults in Japan'. In Riitta Hänninen, Sakari Taipale, and Laura Haapio-Kirk (eds.) Embedded and everyday technology: digital repertoires in an ageing society. UCL Press.
Haapio-Kirk, L. (2025). 'Graphic Methods for Teaching Digital Ethnography'. In Jolynna Sinanan and Rebekah Cupitt (eds.) Teaching Digital Anthropology. Manchester University Press.

Joint-authored/edited

Books

Hänninen, R., Haapio-Kirk, L. and Taipale, S. (eds.) (Forthcoming 2025). Embedded and everyday technology: digital repertoires in an ageing society. UCL Press.
Miller, D., Rabho, L.A., Awondo, P., de Vries, M., Duque, M., Garvey, P., Haapio-Kirk, L., Hawkins, C., Otaegui, A., Walton, S. and Wang, X., (2021). The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology. UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/171335

Articles

Hawkins, C. and Haapio-Kirk, L. (2023) 'Bringing ageing to life: a comparative study of age categories'. Anthropology & Aging. Vol. 44. No. 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2023.480
Walton, S. and Haapio-Kirk, L. (2021) 'Doing Multimodal Anthropology of Aging with Smartphones: Cases from Italy and Japan'. AnthoVision 9.2 | 2021 (Online since 01 December 2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.9270
Linton, C. and Haapio-Kirk, L. (forthcoming) 'Growing roots and cultivating care in rural Japan'. Journal of Material Cultures.
Haapio-Kirk, L. and Ito, M. (2022). ‘Turning Points’ (Special Theme: Ethno-Graphic Collaborations: illustration as a mode of collaborative meaning making’. Edited by Laura Haapio-Kirk). TRAJECTORIA. 2022. 3. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. https://trajectoria.minpaku.ac.jp/articles/2022/vol03/01_1.html
Wang, X and Haapio-Kirk, L. (2021) ‘Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan’ Global Media and China
Miller, D., Costa, E., Haapio-Kirk, L., Haynes, H., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Sinanan, J., Spyer, J., Venkatraman, S. and Wang, X. 2017 ‘Contemporary Comparative Anthropology’ in Ethnos
Miller, D., Costa, E., Haapio-Kirk, L., Haynes, H., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Spyer, J., Venkatraman, S. and Wang, X. 2016 ‘Taking Anthropology to the World’ in Anthropology News (American Anthropological Association) 08.09.2016.

Book chapters

Haapio-Kirk, L. and Sasaki, L. (2025 - forthcoming) 'Rural Japan in Transition: Mutual Assistance, Ageing, and the Smartphone Revolution'. In Klien, S. and Hansen, P. (eds.) The Handbook of Rural Japan. Europe and USA: Amsterdam University Press. Japan: MHM Publishers.
Miller, D. and Haapio-Kirk, L. (2020) ‘Making Things Matter’. In Carroll, T., Walford, A., and Walton, S. (eds.) Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies: Perspectives from UCL Anthropology. Bloomsbury.
Coates, J. and Haapio-Kirk, L. 2019 ‘Chapter 23 Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures’. In Coates, J., Fraser, L., & Mark, P. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. Routledge
Miller, D., Costa, E., Haapio-Kirk, L., Haynes, H., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Spyer, J., Venkatraman, S. and Wang, X. March 2018. In Tong, V. C. H., Standen, A. and Sotiriou M (eds.) ‘Involvement of students’ Connecting Research and Teaching: Students as Partners in Shaping Higher Education. UCL Press

Talks

The Ethnography Talks, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. 'Doing visual digital ethnography,' November 2024.
Closing Conference, Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’, Harnack Haus, Berlin, Germany. 'Engaging Publics: Audiences for Ageing & Migration Research', October 2024. Roundtable panellist.
EASA Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 'Digital commoning: multimodal communities of resistance [Network for Digital Anthropology (ENDA)]', July 2024. Panel co-convenor.
PRM Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, U.K. ‘Illustrating Anthropology’, June 2021.
RAI Film Festival Conference, London, U.K. ‘Illustrating anthropology through the smartphone: Instagram as a mode of public dissemination’, March 2021.
RAI Film Festival Conference, London, U.K. ’Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology’, March 2021
ESA Ageing in Europe Research Network Mid-Term Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. ‘Ageing with Smartphones in Japan’, January 2021.
RAI Annual Conference - Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, London, U.K. Public Anthropology and Geography: roundtable discussion’, September 2020. Discussant.
European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Lisbon, Portugal,‘Digital Affective Communication: Line Stickers and Care at a distance in Japan’, July 2020.
Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Norwich, U.K. ‘Digital Visual Health Communication Among Older Adults in China and Japan’, September 2019.
Skills of Feeling with the World – Fourth Workshop: Technologies of Affective Encounter. Ritsumekan University, Kyoto, Japan. ‘Smartphones and Ageing in Japan’, January 2019.
UNESCO Chair Seminar Series, Osaka University, Japan. ‘Smartphones, Ageing and mHealth in Japan, the U.K., and China, October 2018.
Graduate School of Human Sciences, University of Osaka, Japan. ‘Public Anthropology’, April 2017.
Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. ‘Socialising Infrastructures: How the World Changed Social Media’, February 2017.
Institut for Marketing & Management, University of Skydansk, Odense, Denmark. ‘Why We Post: Our Results and Dissemination’, February 2017.
EASA: Why The World Needs Anthropologists conference, Tartu, Estonia. ‘Digital Anthropology and mHealth’ poster presentation, November 2016.
Anthropology in London Day (RAI), British Museum. London, UK. ‘Anthropology Teachers’ Session’, June 2016.
FutureLearn Partners Forum. Imperial War Museum, London, UK. ‘Research Dissemination and MOOCs’, June 2016.
UCL Festival of Culture. ‘Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media’, May 2016.
IUAES - World anthropologies and privatisation of knowledge, Dubrovnik, Croatia. ‘New Ways of Disseminating Anthropological Research’, May 2016.
Why We Post Workshop, UCL. London, UK. ‘Extending Modes of Dissemination in Anthropology’, March 2016.
PRM Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, U.K. ‘Live Photo Sharing in the Museum’, May 2015.
Electronic and Visual Arts (EVA) conference, London, UK. ’The Sharypic PhotoWall at the Royal Ontario Museum: An Experiment in Real-time Crowdsourcing’, June 2013.

Teaching

Courses

Co-convenor of post-graduate course at UCL Anthropology: ‘Current Themes in Material, Visual, Digital and Design Anthropology: Smartphones’. 2022.

Lectures

Social Anthropology Masters Lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K. February 2021. ‘Illustrating Anthropology.’
Digital Anthropology Masters Lecture, UCL, University of London, U.K. November 2017. ‘Visualising ethnographic data using digital illustration.’
Anthropology Masters Lecture, Department of Human Sciences, University of Osaka, Japan. April 2017 ‘Why We Post: Bringing Anthropology to the People.’

Drawing workshops

The Response-ability Summit, London, U.K. May 2021. ‘Using Drawing to Understand Technology.’
European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. July 2020. Lab: ‘Artistic Explorations of Ageing and Technology: drawing as elicitation method.’

Public Engagement

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland. ‘Illustrating Anthropology’. Co-curator of an online exhibition featuring 62 anthropologists from around the world. September 2020.
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland.‘Being Human’ podcast co-producer 2020 - 2021.
Block Projects, Sheffield, U.K. ‘Illustrating Anthropology’ – Curated a large exhibition of illustrated anthropological research. August 2021
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, U.K. ‘Other Worlds’ – Curated a large exhibition of illustrated anthropological research. November 2020
Being Human Festival of the Humanities, U.K. Programmed a series of anthropology-themed events. November 2020
FRINGE! Queer Cinema and Arts Festival, U.K. Produced a festival of ethnographic film screenings and convened live discussions. July 2020
Japan Now North (public festival), Sheffield, U.K. ‘Doing Digital Anthropology in Japan’. February 2020
UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab. Multimedia Anthropology Now Exhibition, London, U.K. ‘Graphic Ethnography in Japan’. February 2019
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Digital Japan Mini-Festival, Norwich, U.K. September 2018. Talk:‘Smartphones and Smart Ageing in Japan’. Exhibition:‘Drawings from Fieldwork’
Anthropology in London Day (RAI), British Museum. London, U.K.‘Anthropology Teachers’ Session’. June 2016
UCL Festival of Culture. ‘Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media’. May 2016
UCL Urban Migration Film Festival, London, U.K. Film: ‘Little Georgia’. February 2012

Awards

Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Social Anthropology at Christ Church, Oxford University, 2022. A three-year research position. See my original proposal here.
Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Jyväskylä (9,000 euros), 2021.
Leach Fellowship in Public Anthropology (£18,000), Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020.
UCL-Osaka Strategic Partnership Fund (£10,000), 2019.
ERC PhD Studentship (£80,000), 2017.
Education Award (£500), Strand Parishes Trust, 2010.
Education Award (£2000), Forrest and Grinsel Foundation, 2010.
Grant (£500), St. Anne’s Fund, 2010.
Scholarship (£2500), The Philological Foundation Award, 2010.
Education Award (£500), St. James Piccadilly Fund, 2010.
Book Grant (£250), St Clement Danes Trust, 2010.
Full Exhibition Award (£4000), Forrest and Grinsel Foundation, 2005.