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 and the evolution of calculable spaces at Heathrow
  • Innovation and discovery through calculative infrastructures 

By 2019 she became an Co-investigator on the ESRC funded Project X. In this part-time role she examined interdisciplinary perspectives on performance management and control in major infrastructure programmes and engaged closely with senior civil servants to evaluate control capabilities in the project delivery profession. In 2022 this research was awarded a university impact prize.

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