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corporate responses, health and safety, regulation, regulatory enforcement, risk management
United Kingdom

Biography

Bridget Hutter has a Chair in Risk Regulation at the London School of Economics. She studied sociology at the Universities of London and Oxford and has previously worked at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford and Jesus College, Oxford. She was Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) 2000-2010 where she is now a Senior Research Associate.

Bridget Hutter’s research interests are in the broad area of regulation and risk governance including the regulation of economic life; risk anticipation, resilience and natural disasters; risk based regulation; and the regulation of food, the environment, airline safety and occupational health and safety. She is author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation and has an international reputation for her work on compliance, regulatory enforcement and business risk management. Her publications include Managing Food Safety and Hygiene: Governance and Regulation as Risk Management (2011), Anticipating Risks and Organizing Risk Regulation (edited, 2010), Organizational Encounters with Risk (edited with Mike Power, 2005), Regulation and Risk: Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways (2001), Compliance: Regulation and Environment (1997). She recently completed a monograph Regulatory Crisis: Interactions Between Disaster, Crisis and Risk Regulation with Sally Lloyd-Bostock, this will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Her current research is engaging with risk-based approaches to regulation and also with issues of risk, resilience, inequality and environmental regulation.

Bridget Hutter is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an alumnus of the World Economic Forum Network of Global Agenda Councils and Member of the Regulation & Governance Editorial Board. In 2010 she was appointed Trustee and Board Member of the policy research centre The Strategic Society Centre. She is regularly involved in policy making discussions, with international bodies, business organizations, regulatory agencies and consumer groups. She has given advice to BALPA and the Civil Aviation Authority on the reporting culture amongst pilots; the Environment Agency on compliance and small businesses; HSE on compliance research and regulatory impact; the Pennington Inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak on food regulation; the Pitt Review Team on regulation and natural disasters; and various regulators on risk-based regulation. She also speaks at conferences, meetings and to international groups on risk regulation issues.

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Employment (14)

London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

2005 to present | Professor of Risk Regulation
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

2012 to 2013 | Head of Department (Sociology)
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

1999 to 2010 | Director, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
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British Journal of Sociology: London, London, GB

2007 to 2008 | General editor
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British Journal of Sociology: London, London, GB

2002 to 2007 | Editor
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

2000 to 2005 | Peacock Professor of Risk Management
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

1999 to 2000 | Reader in Sociology (Sociology)
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

1995 to 1999 | Lecturer in Sociology (Sociology)
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Wolfson College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1989 to 1995 | Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
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Jesus College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1989 to 1995 | Senior Research Fellow
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Jesus College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1987 to 1995 | Lecturer in Sociology
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Wolfson College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1986 to 1989 | British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
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Wolfson College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1983 to 1986 | Research Officer (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

1982 to 1983 | Morris Ginsberg Fellow in Sociology (Sociology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Nuffield College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

1984 | D.Phil
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University of London: London, London, GB

1978 | BA Sociology (Bedford College)
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Works (26)

A Risk Regulation Perspective on Regulatory Excellence

2016 | Book chapter
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Lessons for Government in Minimising Risk: What can the public service learn from the private sector?

2014 | Book chapter
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'Risk and responsibility' - a Review of The Social Roots of Risk Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience by Kathleen Tierney

2014-10-03 | Book review
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Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis: the case of volcanic ash

British Journal of Sociology
2013 | Journal article
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Managing food safety and hygiene : Governance and regulation as risk management

2011 | Book
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Negotiating social, economic and political environments: compliance with regulation within and beyond the state

2011 | Book chapter
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Understanding the new regulatory governance: business perspectives

Law and Policy
2011 | Journal article
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Anticipating risks and organising risk regulation

2010 | Edited book
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Introduction: Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas

2010 | Book chapter
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Occupational safety and health

2010 | Book chapter
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Visualizations of risk and governance: some observations on change

2010 | Book chapter
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The role of regulation in mitigating the risks of natural disasters

2009 | Book chapter
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Health, risk & society : Special issue : Risk regulation and health

2008 | Edited book
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Risk regulation and compliance: food safety in the UK

2008 | Report
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Risk regulation and healthcare

Health, Risk and Society
2008 | Journal article
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From government to governance: external influences on business risk management

Regulation and Governance
2007 | Journal article
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Business risk management practices: the influence of state regulatory agencies and non-state sources

2006 | Working paper
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The role of non-state actors in regulation

2006 | Working paper
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The role of non-state actors in regulation

2006 | Book chapter
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Organizational encounters with risk.

2005 | Edited book
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Regulation and risk : Occupational health and safety on the railways

2001 | Book
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A reader in environmental law

1999 | Edited book
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Compliance, regulation and environment

1997 | Book
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The reasonable arm of the law? : The law enforcement procedures of environmental health officers

1988 | Book
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Controlling women: The normal and the deviant

1981 | Edited book
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Risk, regulation, and management

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