- Shaw, Eleanor, and Robert Luke Naylor, eds. Weathering Fields: Climate, Food & Famine in History. Environment in History: International Perspectives. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2025 [in review]
- Naylor, Robert Luke, “Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate’s Attorney at Law.” WIREs Climate Change. 2025.
- Naylor, Robert Luke, “Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain’s Public Realm, by Robert Bud.” Science Museum Group Journal 23. 2025.
- Naylor, Robert Luke, and Eleanor Shaw. “Atmospheres of Influence: The Role of Journal Editors in Shaping Early Climate Change Narratives.” British Journal for the History of Science, 2024.
- Naylor, Robert Luke, Joseph D. Martin, and Richard Staley. 2024. “The Significance of the Ordinary in Physics.” Physics in Perspective 26 (3/4): 129–131.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “Atmosphere, Economy, and Their Holistic Framings in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “Climate and Conflict: The Rockefeller Foundation Support for the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study’s Climate Change Research in the 1970s.” Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2024.
- Martin, Joseph D., Robert L. Naylor, and Richard Staley. 2024. “In Praise of Builders.” Physics in Perspective 26 (2): 42–43.
- Naylor, Robert, Joseph D. Martin, and Richard Staley. 2024. “Divergent Stories in the History of Physics.” Physics in Perspective 26 (1): 1–2.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “Entangled Mathematics as a Tool of Reasoning in the Mid-Twentieth-Century UK Electricity Industry.” Global Philosophy, 2024.
- Naylor, Robert L., Joseph D. Martin, and Richard Staley. 2023. “The Impermanent Archive.” Physics in Perspective 25 (4): 173–74.
- Martin, Joseph D., Robert L. Naylor, and Richard Staley. 2023. “Secret Science.” Physics in Perspective 25 (3): 83–84.
- Robert Luke Naylor, “Why Barbie and Not Oppenheimer: A Film Review of Barbie, Directed by Greta Gerwig. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2023,” Endeavour 47, no. 3 (September 1, 2023).
- Naylor, Robert L., Joseph D. Martin, and Richard Staley. 2023. “Vital Physics.” Physics in Perspective 25 (1): 1–2.
- Robert Luke Naylor, Eleanor Shaw, and Yixuan Li, “Cultivating Transdisciplinarity: Report from the Workshop Climate, Food & Famine (Manchester, UK, 14 April 2023),” Northern Environmental History Network (blog), June 9, 2023.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “Reid Bryson: The Crisis Climatologist.” WIREs Climate Change 13, no. 1 (2022): e744.
- Martin, Joseph D., Robert L. Naylor, and Richard Staley. 2022. “Small Physics.” Physics in Perspective 24 (4): 179–80.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “How (Not) to Build an Expert: Personal Reflections on a Terminated Physics Career.” Spontaneous Generations 10, no. 1 (2022): 98–106.
- Naylor, Robert Luke, and Eleanor Shaw. “The 200-Year Cycle: An Early Climate-Based Reaction to the Crisis in the Sahel and Its Uptake in 1973.” History of Meteorology 11, no. 1 (2022): 1–17.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “Chernobyl, Dark Waters, and the Contingency of Environmental Disaster and Scientific Knowledge.” International Review of Environmental History 8, no. 2 (2022): 7–12.
- Robert Luke Naylor, Joseph D. Martin, and Richard Staley, “Physics and Philosophy—Uneasy Bedfellows?,” Physics in Perspective 24, no. 2/3 (September 30, 2022): 97–98.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “The Weather Enterprise – a Concept in Need of Historical Analysis.” Notes and Letters of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology (blog), 2022.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “John Samuel Forrest: The Power Engineer Who Helped Found Weather.” Royal Meteorological Society History Group Newsletter 2021, no. 1 (2021): 4–7.
- Naylor, Robert Luke. “The Bryson Synthesis: The Forging of Climate Change Narratives during the World Food Crisis.” Science in Context 34, no. 3 (2021): 375–391.
Public Engagement
- Volunteer Guide at National Museums Scotland
- YouTube Video advertising Biology with Science and Society at Manchester, May 2024
- Podcast Interview with The Monday Morning Digest, November 2023
- Talk at Manchester Histories Festival, Manchester Central Library, June 10, 2022.
- Talk at the Pint of Science Festival, Webster Bar and Bistro, Glasgow, May 9, 2022.
- Founding editor of Planet Bee Magazine
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