Liam Greenacre

Profile

I joined the School of Sociology and Social Policy in 2023, with a postdisciplinary or ‘wide’ interdisciplinary mindset looking to apply this to methodology and ontology in my project which aims to look at, particularly embracing a ‘flat’ view of social reality which involves hybridity, non-humans and new materialism more generally. I have published on topics including Complexity Theory, Futures Studies, Quantum Mechanics, Politics and Sociology.

I like to embrace topics that are unconventional, broad and diverse. My thesis will aim to see how actants sometimes considered outside the oeuvre of Sociology can be understood in a sociological, philosophical way and theoretical way.

Journal Articles

Greenacre, Liam (2025). “Ontological Distancing in a Liminal World” Journal of Futures Studies 29 (4): 85-93. URL: https://jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-29-no-4-june-2025/ontological-distancing-in-a-liminal-world/

Greenacre, Liam. (2025). “Time is out of Joint”: What is the Future in Futures Studies? World Futures Review: 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567251346438

Greenacre, Liam. (2025). “Migrating Complexity: Generalizing in Inter/Transdisciplinary Research.” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies 20 (1): 307-327. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2324-7576/CGP/v20i01/307-327

Greenacre, Liam (2025). ‘A quantum mechanical explanation for auditory-visual hallucinations’ Medical Hypotheses 195, Article 111554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2024.111554.

Greenacre, Liam. (2024). ‘The Politics of Transdisciplinarity’. World Futures, 80 (4), 348–372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2024.2330253.

Book Reviews

Greenacre, Liam. (2024). ‘Postdisciplinary Knowledge, Edited by Tomas Pernecky’. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11 (2),203-208. URL: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/article/view/1464/1211

Preprints

Greenacre, Liam. (2024). ‘Aristocratic Networks During and Around the Gundovald Affair (581-587)’. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17188.69763.

Conference Presentations

Greenacre, Liam (2025). ‘Configuring Possibilities: Bayesian Statistics, Morphological Analysis and the Physics of Potentialities.’ 4th Virtual Conference of Possibility Studies. Possibility Studies Network (Online presentation). 20-21^st January.

Greenacre, Liam (2024). ‘Migratory Thinking: Moving Concepts Across Disciplines.’ Nineteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age. Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. 17-19^th July.

Greenacre, Liam (2024). ‘Flat Futures: Destratfying the Social World’.The Discovery of the Future in The Social and Human Sciences: Changing Science From a Primarily Past-Oriented Effort to a Primarily Future-Oriented Effort. University of Trento, Italy. 6th-8^th June.

Greenacre, Liam (2024). ‘Pedagogy, Space and Time After Disciplines: A Thematic Learning Model for Higher Education’. Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference. The University of Manchester. 21^st March.

Greenacre, Liam. (2023). ‘Transdisciplinarity and its Ontology of Liminality’, World Futures Studies Federation XXV World Conference, 50^th Anniversary Celebration; Exploring Liminalities: Creating Spaces for Unlimited Futures. École des Ponts Business School, Paris. 23rd-27^th October.

Greenacre, Liam. (2023). ‘Enhancing Transdisciplinary Processes through Quantum Mechanical Heuristics’, Science and Sensibility: A Transdisciplinary Conference. London Arts-Based Research Centre (Online presentation). 22nd-24^th September.

Greenacre, Liam. (2023). ‘Generality and Generalisation in Transdisciplinary Social Science’, Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences- Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change. Oxford Brookes University. 19^th July- 21^st July. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WET4Z2PiUXk

Greenacre, Liam. (2023). ‘A Hypothetical Charter for a Radical Transdisciplinary Journal’, Pedagogies for New Times- An International In-Person Conference on challenges, innovations, and opportunities in Higher Education Practices. University of Leeds. 23^rd June- 24th June.

Conference Sessions Moderated

Greenacre, Liam (2024). ‘Talking Circle – Cultural Studies / Educational Studies’ Nineteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age. Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. 17-19^th July.

Greenacre, Liam (2023). ‘Capturing the Future: Photography and Technology in Dialogue’ Science and Sensibility: A Transdisciplinary Conference. London Arts-Based Research Centre (Online moderation). 22nd- 24^th September.

Greenacre, Liam (2023). ‘Unveiling the Unconcious: Creative Approaches to Dreamwork, Autobiography and Synchronicity in Psychotherapy and Writing’ Science and Sensibility: A Transdisciplinary Conference. London Arts-Based Research Centre (Online moderation). 22nd- 24^th September.

Qualifications

• MA Medieval Studies- University of York
• BA History- University of York