Toward a Lethal Force Monitor: Enhancing State Accountability for Loss of Life in Law Enforcement
Open Society Foundations
Digital Forensics in Policing in England and Wales: An Ethnographic Analysis of Current Practice
ESRC
Cataloguing Secrets, Transforming Justice: An Innovative Manuscript and an Interactive Archive
British Academy
Beyond the Digital Divide: Sharing Research Data across Developing and Developed Countries
The Leverhulme Trust
Strengthening the Prohibition Against Biological Weapons: Enabling an International Educational Network
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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Professor Brian Rappert
Professor (Sociology)
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01392 723353
Amory 318A
My long term concern lies with the social and ethical dilemmas associated with scientific and technical expertise. In particular, I have been concerned with how data and information are managed in areas of public controversy. Much of my work in recent years has examined whether and how research and evidence inform professional practice.
Because much of my research takes place in police, security and diplomatic communities where questions of disclosure and concealment loom large, I have reflected on the methodological issues associated with investigating and writing about secrecy. This has led to attention to silences and absences: how some issues don’t get considered, how some concerns go unsaid, what grievances never get formed, and what paths in social and political are never pursued.
OFFICE HOURS
My office hours for Term 2 in 318a Amory are:
Research group links
- Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
- Science and Technology Studies
- Department of Sociology and Philosophy
Research interests
Visit http://brianrappert.net/ to see more detail on my research interests and publications.
Research supervision
- Sociology of science and technology
- Discourse analysis
- Criminology and policing
- War and conflict
- Secrecy
- Data, evidence and practice
- Magic
- Deception
Research students
Georgina Lewis
SWDTC ESRC Studentship
Simone Long
SWDTP ESRC Studentship