Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Sociology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Business and management, Sociology

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology (personal chair)

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Reader in Sociology

1988 - 1992

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Sociology

1975 - 1988

Publications

Inventing Accuracy: a Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 1990

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust 2001

An Engine, not a Camera: how Financial Models shape Markets 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Adam Crawford FBA

Adam Crawford specialises in policing and criminal justice studies; the sociology of control and regulation; criminological theory; comparative analysis of urban security; vulnerability and social justice; victims and restorative justice; and the co-production of knowledge.

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Professor Helen Margetts FBA

The relationship between government, politics and digital technology including: digital government; politics and social media; public policy-making and data-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence

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