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ESRC Research Officer
Tel: 07882 147259
Fax: 020 7955 6578
Email: j.r.downer@lse.ac.uk|
Research interests
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Aviation Regulation
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Assessing / regulating risk in complex technical systems.
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Risk-based policy-making.
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Sociology of Knowledge
Selected publications
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Downer, John (2010) 'Trust and Technology: The Social Foundations of Aviation Regulation' in the British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 61 Issue 1, pp.87-110.
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Downer, John (2010) 'Anatomy of a Disaster: Why Some Accidents Are Unavoidable', CARR Discussion Paper 61.
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Downer, John (2009) 'Watching the Watchmaker: On Regulating the Social in Lieu of the Technical', CARR Discussion Paper 54.
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Downer, John (2009) 'When Failure is an option: Redundancy, Reliability, and Risk', CARR Discussion Paper 53.
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Downer, John (2007) 'When the Chick Hits the Fan: Representativeness and Reproducibility in Technological Testing' in Social Studies of Science, Vol. 31 No.1 Feb. 2007 pp.7-26.
Selected projects
Selected news items
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Presented a paper entitled 'What Can Go Wrong? Rethinking the Epistemology of Failure' at the University of Edinburgh on 22 June.