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Professor Donald MacKenzie FBA

Sociology

Elected 2004

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics, Management and Business Studies
Website
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/donald-mackenzie

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology (personal chair)

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

1992 -

University of Edinburgh Reader in Sociology

1988 - 1992

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Sociology

1975 - 1988

Publications

Inventing Accuracy: a Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance 1990

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust 2001

An Engine, not a Camera: how Financial Models shape Markets 2006

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Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

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Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Social, economic and geographic histories of Scotland, the UK, and Western Europe since the 18th century. Social economy of households and families

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Professor George Brown FBA

Sociology

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