Rebecca VineAssociate Research Fellow (SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit)
Research
Research Interests
In 2019 she became an Co-investigator on the ESRC funded Project X. In this role she is investigating performance management in the delivery of major infrastructure programmes. Her research considers the translation of performance measurement to management control in major programmes. This research draws on an intensive 25 year case study of management control architectures at Heathrow. The initial stage considers the temporal and institutional dynamics of听 鈥渞iskwork鈥 and these findings will be extended to consider other forms of calculative practice underpinning risk-control innovation during the delivery of large-scale projects.听听
Rebecca was awarded her PhD from SPRU in the Spring of 2018. 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听evolution of calculable spaces at Heathrow
- Justified discovery through calculative infrastructures听
These themes were inspired by Project Studies, Innovation, STS & Accounting听literature听on governing performance,听 risk as a social and institutional phenomenon and mediation through performable spaces.听
Conference Papers;
Quattrone P, Vine R, Nightingale P (2015) 鈥Governing through numbers: Accounting figures as platforms of engagement in the construction of Heathrow Airport鈥 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
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