Professor Tomas Pernecky is a critical philosopher whose work advances critico-conceptual andmethodological inquiry to foster new understandings and social, environmental, and epistemic transformations necessary to build more just, sustainable, and inclusive human and more-than-human futures. His scholarly expertise centres on applied philosophy: engaging in and applying philosophy to critically examine human life, knowledge, and society. His research addresses fundamental questions within epistemology, social ontology, phenomenology, social constructionism, relational ontology, pluriversalism, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of Epistemology and Metaphysics of Qualitative Research, commissioned by SAGE.

Professor Pernecky's intellectual curiosity and commitment to alternative, ever-evolving ways of engaging with ontology, epistemology, and axiology have manifested as sustained advocacy for postdisciplinarity. He has pioneered postdisciplinary scholarship through conference leadership, editorial work, and the first comprehensive edited volume on Postdisciplinary Knowledge. His recent research focuses on relationalontology, critical existentialism, and the philosophy of the possible, with particular attention to how relational approaches can facilitate greater scrutiny of the matrices that render possible unjust, oppressive, anddiscriminatory relational patterns.

Professor Pernecky's work demonstrates that alternative approaches to theorising about being, becoming, and human flourishing are both possible and necessary amid contemporary concerns stemming from climate change, structures of domination, and more-than-human futures. His scholarship provides conceptually, theoretically, and philosophically malleable architecture for reimagining how we are in and become with theworld.