Below is a selection of writing. For a full bibliography, see Full list at ORCID
Kat’s profile as Honorary Associate Professor at UCL Arts and Sciences
On Water and Climate
Ocean of Hope (April 2026), Austen, K. TBA21 Ocean-Archive.org
The Constitution of the Sea: New boundaries and identity through watery, transdisciplinary artistic practice (2024) Austen, K., Technoetic Arts, 22(2):183-196
Sounding Dispersal as a Route to Empathy with the Changing Arctic (2019) Leonardo Music Journal, 29, 3-7.
“This fractionation of our being” (2019) Soundest (3): 33-37.
How I made musical instruments from lab equipment to create empathy with the Arctic (2018) The Conversation.
Multiple knowledges and the Redefinition of the Self in the Environment (2018) Proceedings of the 9th SAR – International Conference on Artistic Research Kat Austen.
Mediating for Climate Change: Falling Up to Hyperignorance, Diving Down to Deep Waters, to Touch Other(s) (and Ourselves) Kat Austen, (2017) Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, 2, 69-78.
On Carbon and Microplastic
Fossil Echoes (2022) Kat Austen
Learning from Landscapes for the Post-Anthropocene, Against Catastrophe project, in Energy Dispatch, edited by Johanna Mehl and Moritz Ingwersen, TU Dresden.
Stranger to the Trees in The Next Renaissance (2022) Odile Jacob Publishing, ISBN: 978-2415001995
On Infrastructures
Collectively Reclaiming the Future in the Age of AI, Austen (2026) CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, 10 (2), 131–134. https://doi.org/10.23726/cij.2026.1928
Co-designing infrastructures: Working with communities to create resilient cities (2024) Bell, Johnson, Teh, Austen, Moore, in Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment
Codesigning Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities (2023) Bell, Johnson, Austen, Moore and Teh, UCL Press, London
“Development of LCA Calculator to support community infrastructure co-design” A Borrion et al. (2018) The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 24: 1209.
“Engineering Comes Home: Co-designing nexus infrastructure from the bottom-up” S Bell et al. (2017) ISNGI Conf. Proceedings 46-54.
“Resilience Task and Finish Group Report” Austen et al. (2015) Ofwat.
On Participation and Transdisciplinarity
The potential of citizen science to transform science: Lessons for a sustainable future, Austen et al. (2024) People and Nature, 6 (2), p 435-445
The Art + Science + Policy Nexus (2023) Austen, Benincasa (Eds.) The Publications Office of the European Union
DNA #24: Evidence Ensembles (2024) Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Eds.), Spector Books – buy online at sans-serriffe
“The Value of Stakeholder Mapping to Enhance Co-Creation in Citizen Science Initiatives” Skarlatidou, A, et al. (2019) Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1): 24, pp. 1–10.
“Art + Science Rapid Analysis Report” Kat Austen (2019) British Council.
“The Art of Health” Kat Austen, (2016) Wellcome Trust.
“What could derail the wearables revolution?” Kat Austen (2015) Nature, 525, 22–24.
“Pollution Patrol” Kat Austen (2015) Nature, 517, 136-138.
On Modelling
“Theory Choice in Chemistry: Attitudes to Computer Modelling in Chemistry” Kat F Austen (2016), in Theory Choice in the History of Chemical Practices, Eds. E. Tobin and C. Ambrosio, SpringerBriefs.
“Electrostatic versus polarization effects in the adsorption of aromatic molecules of varied polarity on an insulating hydrophobic surface” Kat F Austen et al. (2008) J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 035215.
“The interaction of dolomite surfaces with metal impurities” K Austen et al, (2005) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 7, 4150–4156.
“Density Functional Theory Study of the Binding of Glycine, Proline, and Hydroxyproline to the Hydroxyapatite (0001) and (0110) Surfaces” Neyvis Almora-Barrios, Kat F. Austen, and Nora H. de Leeuw, (2009) Langmuir, 25(9), 5018–5025.