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.