BIS Workshop: Gaps in the Evidence Base for UK Better Regulation Policy. 16th May, 2013
Who’s Who of Academic Participants
Robert Baldwin
London School of Economics
Professor of Law, member of Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
Robert Baldwin has written numerous books and learned articles on regulation, including the most widely used academic volume on regulation in the UK: Understanding Regulation (Oxford 1999 with Martin Cave). He has advised numerous corporations, international bodies, government departments and agencies on regulation and is a member of the National Audit Office's Panel of Regulatory Experts. He led the team that wrote the Scoping Study Report for the Government's Review of Legal Services Regulation as well as the team that wrote the DEFRA Review of Enforcement 2005-6.
Julia Black
London School of Economics
Professor of Law
Director of Law and Financial Markets Project
Julia Black’s main research interest is to explore the nature, dynamics and legitimacy of regulatory regimes (state and non-state). She also specialises in the regulation of risk, particularly in biotechnology, and in public law. Julia has advised a number of governmental and consumer bodies in the UK and overseas, including the OECD and the National Audit Office. She was a member the Steering Group for the BRE’s Penalties Review and a member of the Department of Health’s Working Party developing a Common Framework of Principles for the direct-to-consumer sale of genetic testing services. She has been appointed to the Board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority from 2014.
Simon Down
Anglia Ruskin University
Professor of Management
Director of the Institute for International Management Practice; member of Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR)
Simon Down began his working life as an entrepreneur in the independent music sector; his academic research deals with small firm policy, entrepreneurial and organizational self-identity, and indigenous entrepreneurship. He is the author of two books: Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Self-identity in a Small Firm (2006), an ethnographic study of a small firm in the UK, and a textbook, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business (2010). His current research is focused on leading an ESRC funded project entitled 'Situating small business regulation: A longitudinal study of how regulation is received, understood and used'. The project findings are of interest to practitioners in the environmental service, bio-tech, security and film and media sectors, and to regulators and policy-makers.
Daniel Fujiwara
London School of Economics
Current Research Student
Daniel Fujiwara has worked for the UK Department of Work and Pensions and for Cabinet Office, producing working papers investigating how the social impacts of policy can be captured more fully in government cost-benefit analysis. These include 'Valuation Techniques for Social Cost Benefit Analysis: Stated Preference, Revealed Preference and Subjective Well-being Approaches' (with Ross Campbell, 2011), and 'The Department of Work and Pensions Social Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework: Methodologies for estimating and incorporating the wider social and economic impacts of work in Cost-benefit Analysis of employment programmes' (2010). Daniel is now extending his work valuing the social impacts of employment policy under the supervision of Paul Dolan.
Bridget Hutter
London School of Economics
Professor of Risk Regulation, Head of Dept. (Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation)
Bridget Hutter's research interests are in the broad area of the sociology of regulation and risk governance; the regulation of economic life; organisational risk management and social control; risk regulation, resilience and natural disasters; and risk regulation in China. She is author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation, as well as making a video for the Big Ideas series of films, a collaboration between LSE and The Independent: Bridget Hutter: Risk regulation has gone too far
John Kitching
Kingston Business School
Reader, Small Business Research Centre
John Kitching’s particular expertise is small business activities, relations and performance. His research interests are regulation, small business and enterprise policy, and policy evaluation; he also looks at employment relations, intellectual property, and skills. In addition to his academic publications, he and his co-authors produced a report for BERR (2008) on ‘The Impact of Regulation on Small Business Performance’.
Jonathan Levie
Strathclyde Business School
Professor of Entrepreneurship,
Director of Knowledge Exchange, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Jonathan Levie’s main research interests are comparative entrepreneurial strategies, the evolution of young firms, the environment for entrepreneurship, and the nature of interaction between entrepreneurs and resource providers. He is a member of the Enterprise Research Centre, a BIS-ESRC joint venture. In addition to his academic work, Jonathan has extensive direct experience of entrepreneurship. He is co-director of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK, and leads the Scottish GEM Team, as well as being a member of entrepreneurship expert panels for EC DG employment and DG education. Jonathan is currently working with the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association to supply bespoke data on entrepreneurship and social inclusion in EU member states to the OECD for a series of major reports on entrepreneurship in Europe (2011 to 2014).
Martin Lodge
London School of Economics
Reader in Political Science and Public Policy,
Deputy Director, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation
Martin Lodge’s research interests are in the area of Executive Politics and Regulation. Some of his current research focuses on the problem-solving capacities of the modern capitalist state in the OECD world (with Kai Wegrich), and the study of regulatory enforcement. The author of numerous books and journal articles on regulation, Martin also co-edited the Oxford HandBook of Regulation, contributing the chapter on ‘Accountability in the Regulatory State’ (with Lindsay Stirton).
Frank Peck
University of Cumbria
Professor of Regional Economic Development
As Director of the Centre for Regional Economic Development, Frank Peck conducts research on regional economies and provides consultancy services for external agencies and organisations involved in local and regional development. Frank and co-authors recently completed: 'Business perceptions of regulatory burden' (May 2012) a report for BIS that investigates how businesses form their perceptions of regulation and the burden it imposes. It also looks at social processes that influence these perceptions, seeking to understand how media coverage and disseminating regulatory information can influence business’ perceptions.
Peter Quantick
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Also Lincoln University)
European Projects Director for Research and Enterprises Services
Recently appointed chair of an expert group on the development of the new European Commission (EC) Framework Programme (Horizon 2020), Peter was also a member of two expert panels assisting the EC in developing position papers on the European Bio-economy and effective dissemination of European Research outputs. Peter’s subject area is food microbiology/biochemistry and he has expertise working with SMEs on food safety, whilst undertaking research and consultancy into food safety and quality, and being involved in a number of EC Framework Projects in these areas.
Claudio Radaelli
Exeter University
Professor of Politics
Director of the Centre for European Governance
Claudio Radaelli’s core research fields are policy learning,regulatory analysis (including the diffusion of regulatory reform), and EU public policy. He is a member of the National Audit Office’s panel of experts on regulatory reform, and sits on the Technical advisory board on the Better Regulation for Growth programme, a joint initiative of the World Bank Group (FIAS), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and DFID. He has also drafted handbooks on regulatory impact assessment for the World Bank Institute (2009) and Italian Government (2001), and designed and directs the course on “Better Regulation Tools: legislative quality and policy appraisal” offered by the European Academy for Legislation (2009).
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Paul Sanderson
University of Cambridge (also Anglia Ruskin University)
Centre for Business Research, Centre for Housing & Planning Research
Paul Sanderson's research areas are regulation and corporate governance. On regulation he has researched the way senior regulators perceive the public interest, the role of the inspector in regulation, citizen participation in regulation (on which subject he produced a report for BIS in 2011), the efficacy of social housing regulatory data, and the similarities and differences between medical regulatory systems.
Erica Sheward
University of Greenwich, Natural Resources Institute
Food Safety Specialist
As well as lecturing and publishing academically on food regulation, Erica worked for 8 years as Technical Director at Castle Kitchens Ltd, and is a qualified British Retail Consortium Third Party Auditor, as well as being a Director of Food Safety and Health Services for Global Food Standards Ltd, a food safety management consultancy. She is a technical author for the World Health Organisation, re-writing the food section of the Guide to Hygeine and Sanitation in Aviation as part of team of international policy experts. Erica is an advisor to the BRDO.