In this lunchtime series of lectures, a selection of LSE's academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.

Professor Hutter will outline a social science approach to understanding risk regulation and point to some of the insights it might throw on contemporary events. She will discuss the ways in which the meanings and understandings of risk are influenced by the broader social and cultural contexts within which they are situated and particularly on how these risks are processed and governed within organizations.

Professor Bridget Hutter has a Chair in Risk Regulation and is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), a multidisciplinary research centre which focuses on the organisational and institutional settings of risk management and regulation. She studied sociology at the Universities of London and Oxford (D.Phil) where she has held research and teaching appointments. She is former editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

The next lecture in this series, Social Theories of Risk and Economic Life will take place on Thursday 3 December.

A list of all the lectures in the Thinking Like a Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series can be found here.

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