Photo of Rebecca VineRebecca Vine
Associate Research Fellow (SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit)

Research

Research Interests

In 2018 she was awarded her PhD in Technology and Innovation Management from SPRU. Her thesis was a study of Heathrow (Terminal 2 and Terminal 5) as sites for risk-control innovation. The thesis "The Intelligent Client: Learning To Govern Through Numbers at Heathrow" considered:

  • The history of the broken business model in UK construction
  • Governing risk, foresight and the shaping of what counts as valuable in projects
  • The evolution of calculable spaces at Heathrow
  • Justified discovery through calculative infrastructures 

By 2019 she became an Co-investigator on the ESRC funded Project X. In this role she examined performance management and control in the delivery of major infrastructure programmes drawing on an intensive 25 year case study of management control architectures at Heathrow. The initial stage considered the temporal and institutional dynamics of  “riskwork”. These findings were extended to consider other forms of calculative practice underpinning risk-control innovation during the delivery of large-scale projects.  

In 2022 she left Sussex but continues to collaborate with academic colleagues on several projects as an Associate Research Fellow. 

Award winning Blogs 

Nightingale, P, Vine, R.(2022) By Focusing on outputs, rather than people, we misunderstand the real impacy of research. LSE Impact Blog 

Vine, R, Nightingale, P.(2022) We live in an age of projects - Research impact should recognise this. LSE Impact Blog  

Nightingale, P, Vine, R.(2022) Delivering Impact in an expertise economy (1). ESRC report 

Vine, R, Nightingale, P. (2022) Delivering Impact in an expertise economy (2). ESRC report  

Conference Papers;

Quattrone P, Vine R, Nightingale P. (2015) “Governing through numbers: Accounting figures as platforms of engagement in the construction of Heathrow Airport” presented at Organization Science Winter Conference, Park City, Utah February 2015

Vine R (2018) "Governing foresight in the construction of Heathrow Terminal 2" presented at European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 34th Colloquium Estonia July 2018