David Collingridge

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David George Collingridge (born December 29, 1945 in London , † 2005 in England ) was a British technology researcher.

Life

Collingridge was born in London in 1945, studied chemistry at Imperial College (B.Sc. 1963) and then philosophy at the University of Warwick (M.Phil. 1970). He taught at Loughborough Technical College from 1970 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Aston University's Technology Policy Unit as a Research Fellow , which was then headed by Ernest Braun and was one of the first research units for technology assessment in Europe. There he initially worked as part of the Science in a Social Context (SISCON) project and received his doctorate in philosophy (Ph.D.) from Aston University in 1979. He then got a tenure position as a lecturer, initially in the Technology Policy Unit and later at the Management School. He had to retire in 1995 for health reasons and died in 2005.

Services

Collingridge is one of the most cited technology assessors of the first hour. He wrote several books and numerous articles. His best-known book is probably "The Social Control of Technology", which was published by Open University Press in 1980 and in which the famous, later so-called Collingridge dilemma , is explained.

Fonts

  • with E. Braun: Technology and Survival. Butterworth, London 1977, ISBN 0-408-71301-1 .
  • with E. Braun and K. Hinton: Assessment of Technological Decisions-Case Studies. Butterworth, London 1979, ISBN 0-408-71313-5 .
  • The Social Control of Technology. Pinter, London 1980, ISBN 0-903804-72-7 .
  • Critical Decision Making: A New Theory of Social Choice. Pinter, London 1982, ISBN 0-312-17418-7 .
  • Technology in the Policy Process. Pinter, London 1983, ISBN 0-86187-319-X .
  • with C. Reeves: Science Speaks to Power. Pinter, London 1986, ISBN 0-86187-640-7 .
  • Criticism: Its Philosophical Structure. University Press of America, Lanham 1987, ISBN 0-8191-6281-7 .
  • The Management of Scale. Routledge, London 1992, ISBN 0-415-07856-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

This short biography is based on a curriculum vitae and written communications from his former boss, Ernest Braun, and his widow, Jenny Collingridge, in February 2009.

personal data
SURNAME Collingridge, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collingridge, David George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British technology researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 2005
Place of death England