Research
Publications
Book
- Velho, Raquel. Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London’s Public Transport System. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. (Feminist Technosciences series)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Velho, Raquel. “When is infrastructure… invisible? Elaborating on a pivotal description of technoscience.” Research Handbook on the Sociology of Science & Technology, eds. Hauke Riesch, Neil Stephens, Sandra P. González-Santos. (forthcoming)
- Velho, Raquel and Michael Gastrow. “Science, money, power, and place: new lenses for understanding the local impact of astronomy clusters in Chile and South Africa.” Science, Technology and Society (2026).
- Zdrodowska, Magdalena, Miryang Kang, Ashley Shew, Robert Stock, Raquel Velho, Bess Williamson. “Repairing, fixing, adjusting: On disability and technology.” Technology and Culture. (forthcoming)
- Velho, Raquel, Michael Gastrow, Caroline Mason, Marina Ulguim, and Yoliswa Sikhosana. “What is the space for ‘place’ in social studies of astronomy?” Minerva 62, no. 4 (2024).
- Conley, Shannon N. et al. (34 co-authors, including Raquel Velho). “STS and Critical Pedagogies: Provocations from an NSF-funded workshop.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 10, no. 1-2 (2024).
- Sandes-Guimarães, Luisa and Raquel Velho. “Interdisciplinary Research and Policy Impacts: Assessing the Significance of Knowledge Coproduction.” Research Evaluation 31, no. 3 (2022): 344–354. Open access
- Velho, Raquel. “‘They’re changing the network just by being there’: reconsidering infrastructures through the frame of disability studies.” Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 2 (2021). Open access
- Velho, Raquel and Sebastián Ureta. “Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination.” Tapuya — Latin American Science & Technology Studies (2019): 428–441.
- Velho, Raquel. “Public transport accessibility for wheelchair users: A qualitative analysis of health and inclusion.” International Journal of Transport Science and Technology 8, no. 2 (2019): 103–115.
- Velho, Raquel. “Infraestruturas de transportes e inclusão social… ou, como os cadeirantes se revoltam.” Tecnologia e Sociedade 14, no. 32 (2018): 138–155.
- Velho, Raquel, Catherine Holloway, Andrew Symonds and Brian Balmer. “The Effect of Transport Accessibility on the Social Inclusion of Wheelchair Users: A Mixed Method Analysis.” Social Inclusion 4, no. 3 (2016): 24–35.
- Kostkova, Patty et al. “Who Owns The Data? Open Data for health care.” Frontiers in Public Health 4 (2016).
- Velho, Raquel. “Gerar (e gerir) expectativas: novas áreas de pesquisa nos estudos sociais da ciência.” Liinc em Revista 10, no. 2 (2014): 665–73.
Book chapters
- Velho, Raquel and Sebastián Ureta. “Latin American Infrastructure Studies: The fragility of modernist projects.” In Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory, eds. Noela Invernizzi and Leandro Medina, 113–138 (2025).
Book reviews
- Velho, Raquel. Review of Risco, ambiente e saúde: um debate sobre comunicação e governança do risco em áreas contaminadas by Gabriela di Giulio. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research 5, no. 1 (2016): 32–34.
Public scholarship
- Velho, Raquel. “Planning for an Accessible Future: Paths towards designing equity into our infrastructures.” Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy 5, no. 2 (2024): 65–68. [Invited commentary]
- Velho, Raquel. “Arecibo telescope’s fall is indicative of global divide around funding science infrastructure.” The Conversation (2020).
- Velho, Raquel. “‘E isso te isola, porque o mundo fica cada vez menor…’: Acessibilidade em transporte público e inclusão social.” Com Ciência 175 (2016).
