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CARR QUAD Research Officer Alex Griffiths conducted this piece of research in collaboration with Professor Roger King (Visiting Professor University of Bath and CARR Research Associate) and Meghan Leaver (Oxford University).

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CARR report on customer engagement in air traffic management

Customer engagement is a central theme in UK regulation. But what are the critical dimensions of such processes? What do regulated companies and their customers make of their engagement practices? This report, financially supported by NATS, by Eva Heims and Martin Lodge highlights critical design issues to enable successful customer engagement practices in regulation. The report is available here

Wisdom of patients: predicting the quality of care using aggregated patient feedback

Reseach from CARR shows that combined feedback from patients, including tweets and Facebook posts, effectively predicts the findings of hospital inspections.

CARR report on numerical statements in political discourse

Has there been a rise in the use of statistics and facts in contemporary political discourse? This carr report found no clear patterns in its analysis of political and parliamentary speeches, twitter and government announcements. The report is available here

Future of Independent Economic Regulation Lecture by Cathryn Ross

What is the future of independent economic regulation? This central question was discussed during a joint lecture by Ofwat and carr. The lecture is available as a report and as podcast

Read the latest issue of Risk & Regulation magazine

Risk&Regulation is the biannual magazine of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR). This online version of the printed magazine includes articles by leading scholars and practitioners that feature links to other relevant items, events, and publications produced by CARR.

CARR QUAD Team presents at 33rd EGOS Colloquium in Copenhagen (4-6 July)

Research on the ‘Quantification, Administrative Capacity and Democracy’ (QUAD) features at the 33rd EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) colloquium in Copenhagen. carr will be represented with two papers, by Alex Griffiths and Andrea Mennicken and by Andrea Mennicken, Liisa Kurunmäki and Peter Miller.

CARR/RAND Europe research on regulation of logistics infrastructures in Brazil

Funded by the UK’s Prosperity Fund, research by carr and RAND Europe developed a new approach towards regulation of logistics infrastructures with direct application to Brazil. More information is available here.

18 July 2016	Professor Michael Power among four LSE elected as Fellows of the prestigious British Academy
03 March 2016	The Governance Trap
01 April 2016	New CARR Discussion Paper 83: Innovation through customer engagement and negotiated settlements in water regulation Towards a transformed regulatory state?
19 April 2016	CARR Project receives ESRC funding under the prestigious Open Research Area award scheme

09 December 2015	Diversity Makes You Brighter
28 October 2015	CARR research in OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2015
19 October 2015	The Behavioural Finance Forum: Risk culture in financial organisations
14 October 2015	New CARR Discussion Paper: ‘Making sense of inter-organizational ‘safe spaces’ in business regulation'
27 July 2015	What is the future for independent regulators?
1 May 2015	First TransCrisis Newsletter
4 March 2015	TransCrisis project receives EU funding
29 January 2015	Is 'academic citizenship' under strain?: Professor Michael Power writes in The Times

20 December 2014	Special Issue on the British Utility Regulation Model in Utilities Policy
11 Sept 2014	Juliene Etienne publishes article on Different ways of blowing the whistle: Explaining variations in decentralized enforcement in the UK and France
10 June 2014	New publication by Kai Wegrich and Martin Lodge: 'Problem-Solving Capacity of the Modern State'
22 May 2014	CARR Public Lecture: The Social Conditions for Innovation: Dissonance for Discovery
31 March 2014	The British regulation Model: Beyond competition and incentive regulation? - one day conference
26 March 2014	Better Quality Risk Management: The Times 26 March 2014
14 March 2014	New publication by Dr Carl Macrae (CARR Research Associate)
29 January 2014	Risk & Regulation Magazine Issue 26

30 September 2013	Press release: Risk Culture in Financial Organisations publish final report
20 July 2013	CARR Doctoral Prize The first CARR Doctoral Prize (2013) was awarded to Eva Heims for the paper “Examining Transnational Networks of Regulators in the EU: The Case of Drug Safety Monitoring (Pharmacovigilance)". Eva is a CARR doctoral student completing a PhD thesis at the LSE European Institute, which investigates how risks are managed across borders, on a translational level, in Europe.
15 June 2013	Risk & Regulation Magazine Issue 25
20 May 2013	Risk Culture in Financial Organisations provide Thinkpiece for CII
20 March 2013	New publication by Dr Madalina Busuioc - European Agencies: Law and Practices of Accountability
11 March 2013	New paper by Dr Julien Etienne in a special issue of Regulation & Governance on Twenty Years of Responsive Regulation
25 January 2013	Professor Michael Power awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Uppsala, Sweden
10 January 2013	New Discussion Paper by Matthias Benzer: Independence in Dependence: Health Technology Assessment, Quality of Life, and the Position of the Patient

2 December 2012	New Risk & Regulation magazine: Winter 2012 Edition
8 November 2012	Risk Culture in Financial Organisations: an interim report
1 November 2012	Blog post on LSE EUROPP blog: Julien Etienne (CARR member) and Tommaso Palermo (LSE Fellow) write about the L’Aquila earthquake trial
14 September 2012	CARR welcomes two new LSE Fellows in Risk and Regulation September 2012 Dr Madalina Busuioc (pictured left) obtained her PhD from Utrecht University in 2010 and prior to joining CARR, Madalina was an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), part of the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on European agencies and governance issues and her latest book European Agencies: Law and Practices of Accountability is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She won the 2009 Europe Award for Junior Academics, granted by the Montesquieu Institute in the Hague, for her article 'Accountability Control and Independence: The Case of European Agencies'. During her tenure at CARR she will be working on the broad theme of the ‘risk management state’. Dr Martha Poon (pictured right) studied at the Science Studies Program at University of California San Diego and works on the history of the US consumer credit rating. Martha is the author of 'From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial consumer risk scores and the making of subprime mortgage finance' (Accounting, Organization and Society, 2009, 34:654-674) and was awarded the 2008 Hacker-Mullins Prize from the Science Knowledge and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.

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