publications

Since 2019

articles

• Cengic, Efe, Carol Garzon Lopez, and Anne Beaulieu. 2025. ‘Plastic Dreams: Knowing and Imagining More-than-Human Futures of Olive Landscapes in the Turkish Aegean’. Nature & Culture 20 (2).
• Raúl R. Cordero, Sarah Feron, Avni Malhotra, Alessandro Damiani, Minghu Ding, Francisco Fernandoy, Juan A. Alfonso, Belkis Garcia, Juan M. Carrera, Pedro Llanillo, Paul Wachter, Jaime Pizarro, Edgardo Sepúlveda, Jose Jorquera, Chenghao Wang, Jorge Carrasco, Zutao Ouyang, Pedro Oyola, Maarten Loonen, Anne Beaulieu, Jacob Dana, Alia L. Khan, Gino Casassa, Choong-Min Kang. 2025. ‘Heavy Metal Imprints in Antarctic Snow from Research and Tourism’. article Nature Sustainability.
• Ficozzi, Matilde, Mathieu Jacomy, Dario Rodighiero, Anne Beaulieu, and Anders Kristian Munk. 2025. ‘Grounding AI Map: The Consequences of Living with the Trouble of an Irreductionist Map’. Design Art Media special issue, Design&Abstractions. https://journal.dampress.org/issues/design-et-abstractions/grounding-ai-map-the-consequences-of-living-with-the-trouble-of-an-irreductionist-map.
• Kraamwinkel, Clarisse, J.A. Beaulieu, S.C. Feron, C. Vazquez, De Haan, and Ruth A. Howison. 2025. “Evaluating and Improving the Performance of the Models Underlying the Soil Navigator Tool on Drained Peat Grasslands”, European Journal of Soil Science. 76:e70117, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70117
• Miedema, Marije, Susan Aasman, Anne Beaulieu, and Sabrina Sauer. 2025. ‘An Ecologically Just Future for Personal Digital Heritage: Three Guiding Statements’. Archival Science 25 (2): 1–18.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-025-09481-1.
• Kraamwinkel, Clarisse, Anne Beaulieu, Sarah Feron, C. Vazquez, W. de Haan, and R. A. Howison. 2025. ‘Optimizing Soil Multifunctionality of Coastal Peat Grasslands’. Geoderma Regional, 40, February, e00929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2025.e00929.
• Feron, Sarah, Raúl R. Cordero, Alessandro Damiani, Shelley MacDonell, Jaime Pizarro, Katerina Goubanova, Raúl Valenzuela, Chenghao Wang, Lena Rester, and Anne Beaulieu. 2024. ‘South America Is Becoming Warmer, Drier, and More Flammable’. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01654-7.
• Eren, Selen, Anne Beaulieu, Theunis Piersma, and Nicola Crockford. 2024. “Flyways Beyond Migratory Pathways: The Case of Waterbird Conservation.” Conservation and Society 22 (2): 74-85. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_109_22.
• Cordero, Raúl R., Sarah Feron, Alessandro Damiani, Jorge Carrasco, Cyrus Karas, Chenghao Wang, Clarisse T. Kraamwinkel, and Anne Beaulieu. 2024. “Extreme Fire Weather in Chile Driven by Climate Change and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO).” Scientific Reports 14 (1): 1974. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52481-x.
• Stevens, Marthe, and Anne Beaulieu. (2024). ‘A Careful Approach to Artificial Intelligence: The Struggles with Epistemic Responsibility of Healthcare Professionals in the Netherlands Information, Communication and Society. 27 (4): 719–34. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2289971/1369118X.2023.2289971
• Eren, Selen, and Anne Beaulieu. (online first, December 2023) ‘Between a Bird-in-the-Hand and Species Data in the Bank: Intermittent Care in Conservation Science’. Theory, Culture & Society.
• Taylor Craft, Anne Beaulieu, Theunis Piersma, Ruth Howison^. 2022. ‘Mapping and Tensions between Ways of Seeing Fields’, for Biodiversity Mapping in Ecology and Conservation: Pitfalls, Uncertainties, and Creative Ways Forward. Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Conservation and Restoration Ecology.
• Gstrein, Oskar J., and Anne Beaulieu. 2022. ‘How to Protect Privacy in a Datafied Society? A Presentation of Multiple Legal and Conceptual Approaches’. Philosophy and Technology 35 (1): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00497-4.
• Kraamwinkel, Clarisse, Anne Beaulieu, Ruth A. Howison, and Teresa Dias. 2021. ‘Planetary Limits to Soil Degradation’. Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 8 December.
• Rijcke, Sarah de, Tjitske Holtrop, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Jochem Zuijderwijk, Anne Beaulieu, Thomas Franssen, Thed van Leeuwen, et al. 2019. ‘Evaluative Inquiry: Engaging Research Evaluation Analytically and Strategically’. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, July, 176–82.

books

• Beaulieu, Anne (February 2026) Revealing Relations: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable Futures, Bristol University Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne and Sabina Leonelli. 2021. Data and Society: A Critical Introduction, Sage. Preprint available from U. of Groningen repository

chapters

• Beaulieu, Anne. In press, 2026. ‘Interfaces for the Anthropocene’. In Critical Infrastructure Studies &     Digital Humanities, edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies. Debates in the Digital Humanities Series. University of Minnesota Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2025. ‘Is My Work Reflexive Enough? A Graphical Decision Tree’. In Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond, edited by Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Esther Dessewffy, Bao-Chau Pham, Ariadne Avkian, and Kathleen Gregory. Dis-Positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS. Bristol University Press.
• Edwards, Paul N., Ashley Carse, Robin Williams, Antti Silvast, Steven J Jackson, Christine Borgman, and Anne Beaulieu. 2024. ‘Infrastructures’. In Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Studies, ed. Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 328-339.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2022. Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures. In Maja Hojer Bruun, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Høyer, Brit Ross Winthereik and Ayo Wahlberg Eds., Handbook for the Anthropology of Technology, Palgrave.

other writing

• Beaulieu, Efe Cengic, Raul Cordero Carrasco, Selen Eren, Sarah Feron, Matilde Ficozzi, Carol Garzon Lopez, et al. 2024. “Liveable Futures: A Guiding Concept for Knowledge Infrastructures.” EASST Review 43 (1). https://easst.net/easst-review/43-1/liveable-futures-a-guiding-concept-for-knowledge-infrastructures/
• Data Research Centre. 2020. De Universiteit als Duurste Streamingsdienst? De gevolgen van een veranderde infrastructuur, Th&ma Hoger Onderwijs. (Journal for Higher Education and Management) 5: 51-4.
• Data Research Centre. 2020, Higher Education needs to clarify its mission (in Dutch), opinion piece, Science Guide, https://www.scienceguide.nl/2020/05/de-universiteit-moet-haar-meerwaarde-opnieuw-uitvinden/, 12 May 2020.
• Data Research Centre. 2020 ‘De universiteit moet haar meerwaarde opnieuw uitvinden’ shortened version published in het Onderwijsblad, magazine of the Algemene Onderwijsbond (Dutch Education Union), read by 85.000 education professionals, May.
• Beaulieu, A., and Paul Wouters. 2019. ‘Samenleven Met Data: Verkenningen van Nieuwe Maatschappelijke Relaties’. De Nederlandse Boekengids, no. 3. https://www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20190426-anne-beaulieu-paul-wouters/

Before 2019

articles

• Beaulieu, Anne, Matt Ratto and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2013. Learning in a Landscape: Simulation-building as reflexive Intervention. Mind & Society, 12(1):91-112.
• Derksen, Maarten, Signe Vikkelsø, and Anne Beaulieu. April 2012. Social Technologies: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on Technologies in and from the Social Sciences. Theory and Psychology, 22(2):139-147, doi:10.1177/0959354311427593.
• Beaulieu, Anne and Adolfo Estalella.  2012. Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings. Information, Communication and Society, 15(1): 23-42.
• de Rijcke, Sarah and Anne Beaulieu. 2011. Image as interface: Consequences for users of museum knowledge. Library Trends, 59 (4): 664-685.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2010. From Co-location to Co-presence: Shifts in the Use of Ethnography for the Study of Knowledge.Social Studies of Science, 40 (3): June. 453-470.
• Beaulieu, Anne, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Paul Wouters. 2007. “Not Another Case Study: A Middle-Range Interrogation of Ethnographic Case Studies in the Exploration of E-science.”Science, Technology & Human Values, 32 (6): 672-692.
• de Rijcke, Sarah and Anne Beaulieu. 2007. “Taking a good look at why images don’t speak for themselves.”Theory and Psychology, 17 (5): 733-742.
• Ratto, Matt and Anne Beaulieu. 2007. “Banking on the Human Genome Project. For special issue on Genes and Society: Looking Back on the Future, S. Z. Reuter and K. Neves-Graça, (eds).” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de sociologie, 44 (2): 175-200.
• Wouters, Paul and Anne Beaulieu. 2007. “Critical Accountability: Dilemmas for Interventionist Studies of e-Science.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (2).
• Beaulieu, Anne and Elena Simakova. 2006. “Textured connectivity: an ethnographic approach to understanding the timescape of hyperlinks.” Cybermetrics, 10 (1).
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2005. “Les enjeux de la cartographie du cerveau pour les sciences cognitives: réduction, traduction ou transformation?” numéro spécial, Alternatives en sciences cognitives: enjeux et débats. Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle, 19(1-2): 31-43.
• Azberger, Peter, Peter Schroeder, Anne Beaulieu, Geoffrey Bowker, Kathleen Casey, Leif Laaksonen, David Moorman, Peter Uhlir and Paul Wouters. 2004. “An International framework to promote access to data.” Science, 303(5665): 1777-1778.
• Arzberger, Peter, Peter Schroeder, Anne Beaulieu, Geoffrey, Kathleen Casey, Leif Laaksonen, et al. 2004. “Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic, and Social Development”. Data Science, 3: 135-152.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2004. “Mediating ethnography: objectivity and the making of ethnographies of the internet.” Social Epistemology, 18(2-3): 139-164.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2004. “From brainbank to database: The informational turn in the study of the brain.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 35(2): 367-390.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2003. “Brains, maps and the new territory of psychology.” Theory and Psychology, 13(4): 561-568.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2002. “A space for measuring mind and brain: Interdisciplinarity and digital tools in the development of brain mapping and functional imaging, 1980-1990.” Brain and Cognition, 49(1): 13-33.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2002. “Images are not the (only) truth: Brain mapping, visual knowledge, and iconoclasm.” Science , Technology & Human Values, 27(1): 53-86.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2001. “Voxels in the brain: Neuroscience, informatics and changing notions of objectivity.” Social Studies of Science, 31(5): 635-680.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 1998. “Onder de regenboog: De beloften van hersenscans in onderzoek en de media.” Psychologie & Maatschappij, 22(82): 8-23.
• Beaulieu, Anne and AbbyLippman. 1995. “‘Everything you need to know’: How women’s magazines structure prenatal diagnosis for women over 35.” Women & Health 23(3): 59-74.

books

• Beaulieu, J.A., de Wilde, J. H., & Scherpen, J. M. A. (Eds) 2016. Smart Grids from a Global Perspective: bridging old and new energy systems. Springer.
• Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt (eds), Virtual Knowledge, MIT Press.

chapters

• Beaulieu, Anne. 2016. Vectors for Fieldwork: Computational thinking and new modes of ethnography. In Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bel, (Eds). In Companion to Digital Ethnography. (pp 29-39) Routledge.
• de Wilde, J. H., Beaulieu, J. A., & Scherpen, J. M. A. 2016. Introduction – Smart Grids: Design, Analysis and Implementation of a New Socio-Technical System. In A. Beaulieu, J. de Wilde, & J. M. A. Scherpen (Eds). Smart Grids from a Global Perspective: Bridging Old and New Energy Systems. (pp. 1-8). Springer.
• Beaulieu, J.A. 2016. What Are Smart Grids? Epistemology, Interdisciplinarity and Getting Things Done. In A. Beaulieu, J. de Wilde, & J. Scherpen (eds.), Smart Grids from a Global Perspective: Bridging Old and New Energy Systems. (pp. 63-73). Springer.
• Beaulieu, Anne 2014. If Visual STS is the answer, what is the question? In Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar (Eds), Visualization in the Age of Computerisation, Routledge.
• de Rijcke, Sarah and Anne Beaulieu. 2014. Networked neuroscience: brain scans and visual knowing at the intersection of atlases and databases, In Catelijne Coopmans, Mike Lynch, Janet Vertesi & Steve Woolgar (Eds)  Representations in Scientific Practice Revisited. MIT Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne, Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Joris van Zundert. 2013. Between tradition and web 2.0: eLaborate as social experiment in humanities scholarship, p. 112-129. In Tatjana Takseva (ed.), Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• van Zundert, Joris, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Tara Andrews. 2012. Cultures of Formalization: Towards an encounter between humanities and computing, p. 279-294. In David M. Berry (ed.) Understanding Digital Humanities: The Computational Turn and New Technology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Wyatt, Sally, Andrea Scharnhorst, Anne Beaulieu and Paul Wouters. 2013. Virtual knowledge: An introduction.  In Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt (eds), Virtual Knowledge, MIT Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2012. Fast Moving Objects and their Consequences. In Melissa Littlefield and Jenell Johnson (eds). The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur. 2013. Authority and Expertise in New Sites of Knowledge Production.  In Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst,  and Sally Wyatt (eds), Virtual Knowledge, MIT Press.
• Beaulieu, Anne and Mette Høybye. 2011. Studying Mailing Lists: text, temporality, interaction and materiality at the intersection of email and the web. In The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research, edited by Sharlene Hessse-Biber, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 257-274.
• Derksen, Maarten and Anne Beaulieu. 2011. Social Technology. In The Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, 703-719. London: Sage.
• Beaulieu, Anne and Paul Wouters. 2009. “E-research as Intervention.” In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 54-69. New York: Routledge.
• Wouters, Paul, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Matt Ratto, Iina Hellsten, Jenny Fry, and Anne Beaulieu. 2008. “Messy Shapes of Knowledge – STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work.” In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman, 319-353. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Pres
• Wouters, Paul and Anne Beaulieu. 2006. “Imagining e-science beyond computation.” In New Infrastructure for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science, edited by Christine Hine, 48-70. London: Information Science Publishing.
• Beaulieu, A. 2005. “Sociable Hyperlinks: An Ethnographic Approach to Connectivity.” In: Hine, C. (ed). Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Oxford: Berg, 183-197.
• Zeldenrust, D.A.; Kemps-Snijders, M.; Zeeman, R.; Zundert, van J.; Beaulieu, A. Creating Interfaces, Alfalab and practical approaches for connecting researchers, developers and infrastructures. In Problems and Possibilities of Computations Humanities, p.41-44, Jorna, R.; Kecheng Liu; Faber, N.R. (eds). Leeuwaarden: Fryske Akademy.

other writing

• Beaulieu, Anne. 2017. Denken in transitie: wat zijn de energy humanties?  De Nederlandse Boekengids 2(6)21-23.
• Beaulieu, Anne, Matt Ratto and Andrea Scharnhorst. Learning in a Landscape: Simulation-building as Reflexive Intervention. arXiv:1108.5502v1 [physics.hist-ph]
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2010. CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting (review).Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 84 (3): 542-543.
• Beaulieu, Anne. 2009. “Review of Annette N. Markham, Nancy K. Baym, eds. ‘Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Methods’ (2009, Los Angeles et al: Sage).” Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.
• Beaulieu, Anne and Adolfo Estalella. 2009. “Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings.” Proceeding of: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, June 24-26, 2009. 1-15.
• van Zundert, Joris, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Anne Beaulieu. 2009. “Alfalab, Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment.” Proceeding of: The IEEE e-Science Conference. December 9-11, 2009. Oxford, UK. 1-5.
• Domínguez, Daniel, Anne Beaulieu, Adolfo Estalella, Edgar Gómez, Bernt Schnettler, and Rosie Read. 2007. “Virtual Ethnography (Editorial, special issue).” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8 (3): http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/274.
• de Rijcke, Sarah and Anne Beaulieu. 2004. “De grenzen van inzichtelijkheid. Waarom wetenschappelijke afbeeldingen niet vanzelf spreken.” Academische Boekengids, 47, 13-15.

A chapter of my PhD entitled ‘The Space inside the Skull: Digital Representations, Brain Mapping and Cognitive Neuroscience in the Decade of the Brain‘ is also available.