Simon Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 91910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2729-4734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reimagining educational gardens
This paper explores a novel approach to educational botanic gardens through a case study of the Eden Project Cornwall (EPC), a visitor attraction that challenges the pedagogical strategies of many botanical gardens. By studying the design of real-world biomes, we trace how the leadership team understands its educational niche within a broader environmental learning ecosystem. Drawing on situated insider knowledge from the leadership team and qual…
Deviance normalised? An analysis of British cover-ups informed by actor-network theory
Co-researching with primary school students to retrace their digital footprint
Young children are extensively datafied today even from before birth where families may share information about them or allow them to use digital technologies at a very young age. Schools typically collect children's data for compliance and to construct a set of norms and deviance in predicting risks and educational outcomes, often without children's knowledge and consent. Yet, children's understanding of their digital footprints is limited by th…
Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data
The use of digital services and technologies have become integral to participating in civic life. However, with each interaction, data or information relating to the user is collected. In the case of children, data about them may be collected from before birth where others such as family members share information about them through posting on social media or signing up to services. In this exploratory study, we sought to uncover the digital dilem…
“I’m too young to be frail!”. HIV and attitudes on ageing, quality of life and being assessed for frailty
The attitudes of People Living with HIV (PLWH) towards frailty and maintaining quality of life (QOL) whilst ageing is largely unknown. This study examines how PLWH perceive being assessed for frailty and ageing, and the importance of QOL as they age. 40 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Many of the participants voiced that ageing was unexpected and were unprepared for this. Main themes for ageing included self-determination and loss of i…
Atomic blackmail – Russia-Ukraine war and Ramberg’s theory of vulnerability
The Russia-Ukraine War is being fought between states committed to nuclear power.This paper references Ramberg's nuclear powerplant (NPP) vulnerability treatise, the IAEA's Seven Pillars of Safety metric and Pidgeon and O'Leary's safety imagination approach to assess the safety of Ukrainian and Russian NPPs.It suggests governments should reflect on events in Ukraine, and, with reference to the above-mentioned approaches, decide whether the upside…
Foregrounding threats to disaster investigations with actor-network theory
To create a safer world, it is vital that lessons are learned from near-misses, incidents and accidents and that those lessons are, through active learning, translated into practical, safety-oriented actions. Not unnaturally, vested interests – fearful of the consequences of being associated with the event in question – may seek to delay, deflect or halt whatever investigation is called for or authorised. Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT), th…
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes
Despite a predominantly digital, 21st century music production landscape, analogue hardware professional audio technologies persist. In the discoursal throes of the leading online audio technology message forum Gearslutz, such technologies are routinely objectified, sexualized, fetishized and socialized into gear. Situated in a contemporary critical, interdisciplinary framework of fetish, masculinity and sexuality studies, this research interroga…
Endorsing the Street Code
Extensive empirical research has demonstrated a strong association between the code of the street and gang violence among inmates within correctional settings. Largely absent from this literature is the prominence of Street Code beliefs among incarcerated youth populations. Using data from a sample of 306 adolescent males, analyses were conducted to assess the likelihood of Street Code endorsement among incarcerated youth from communities with ga…
A scoping review of post‐disaster social support investigations conducted after disasters that struck the Australia and Oceania continent
This scoping review provides a summary of research findings on social support dynamics in the wake of disasters that occurred on the continent of Australia and Oceania between 1983 and 2013. Forty‐one studies, quantitative and qualitative, were summarised, investigating different facets of post‐disaster supportive interactions. All inquiries assessed disasters resulting from natural hazards, with the majority of them conducted following events in…
The 2018 Gosport Independent Panel report into deaths at the National Health Service’s Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Does the culture of the medical profession influence health outcomes
The 2018 Gosport Independent Panel report into deaths at the National Health Service’s Gosport War Memorial Hospital highlighted numerous organisational failings. With the aid of systems theory, this commentary identifies the root causes of events at Gosport. It is concluded that money spent on patient-safety initiatives will be wasted unless the root causes of error and malpractice are eliminated
Pilot workload and fatigue on four intra-European routes
There were predictions that the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA’s) new Flight Time Limitations (FTLs) (European Union Regulation 83/2014) would adversely affect safety. Following implementation of the new regulations, research into flight-crew fatigue and workload was conducted at a medium-sized U.K-registered low-cost carrier (LCC). A mixed-methods approach drawing on instantaneous self-assessment (ISA) and participant observation was us…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of
Does Learning About Near-Death Experiences Promote Psycho-Spiritual Benefits in Those Who Have Not Had a Near-Death Experience
Research has revealed a consistent pattern of positive aftereffects in those who report a near-death experience [NDE]. Beneficial outcomes are also possible for those who have not had a NDE, but instead learn about them, although much of this research has been conducted on therapeutic populations. Using a sample of 143 participants randomly assigned to either an intervention or non-intervention group, we investigated whether learning about NDEs g…
Songs about fucking
This article posits North London's Southern Studios and its late founding recordist John Loder as responsible for the construction of a sonically discernible production aesthetics befitting a subversive music. Blending phonomusicological work on the recording workplace and recordists, original ethnographic work, as well as tech-processual analyses of two key recordings, Crass' "Do They Owe Us A Living?" and Big Black's "The Power of Independent T…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Neighborhood Racial Composition; and Hypertension Stage, Awareness, and Treatment Among Hypertensive Black Men in New York City
Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management
Buku ini membahas masalah keamanan dan keamanan sipil. Ini mencakup pengelolaan risiko dan bahaya sosio-teknis, risiko lingkungan, dampak sosial dan ekonomi. Selain itu, juga membahas terorisme, ketertiban umum, tanggap darurat, pasokan energi, perubahan iklim, bencana alam, dan masalah terkait ketenagakerjaan, semuanya dalam konteks sosial yang memprioritaskan pengurangan risikonya
Pilot workload and fatigue on short-haul routes
In the context of claims that the European Aviation Safety Agency’s flight and duty- time regulations pose a threat to safety, pilot workload and fatigue were assessed on two short-haul routes using a mixed-methods approach. Data produced by the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Crew Status Survey (CSS) showed that pilots rarely assessed workload and fatigue to be high-risk. Data produced by an ethnographic study somewhat contradicted the…
Behind the magical mystery door
In rock historiography, Abbey Road Studios is depicted as the rock canon's ultimate recording house; home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and a generation of classic rock album production. In recent years, the studio has struggled to maintain itself as an operational recording house, yet effectively exploits its past to secure its future. This article considers issues of heritage, pilgrimage and tourism before elucidating brand 'Abbey Road' as a confl…
Never Mind the Bollocks
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was a record made under highly unorthodox circumstances. In this article, four contextual cornerstones of record production study are considered: the recording workplace (studio); recordist(s); the sound recording and production technology; and production processes and techniques. The tech-processual context of Never Mind the Bollocks is considered in full, before a detailed production analysis of t…
A longitudinal ethnographic study of night‐freight pilots
This paper records the lived reality of night‐freight operations at a UK‐registered airline. Observations were made over an 18‐month period. The paper answers calls for more research into the working and living conditions of night‐freight pilots. Pilots perceived numerous issues. These included cultural cleavage, terms and conditions, roster instability and the impact of night flying on physical and psychological health. Some issues (volatile ros…
Defensive capacity
In their paper ‘Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations: The Implications of the Überlingen and Linate Disasters’ Busby and Bennett attribute the ‘defensive capacity’ of an airspace system to the behaviour of those who constitute its production‐protection space (first‐line producers like avionics manufacturers, airlines, pilots' groups and airport authorities). This paper argues that an airspace system's defensive capacity is also a f…
Analysing the risks of individual and collective intentionality
The risk assessment of complex systems often seems to neglect the way in which intentions, collective and individual, are central to our explanations of how risk arises in such systems. Contradictions among the intentions of different actors, for example, are typically an important part of our understanding of how organizations break down. Moreover, risk assessment practice pays little attention to the reflexive problem of how intentions for the …
Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations
A clear distinction is often drawn between the functions of production and protection in organisations. This implies that they have twin capacities – for production and for protection – that in some respects will be interdependent and in some independent. In the field of operations management productive capacity is a commonly used construct, and there has been some attempt to develop a parallel construct of protective capacity, but this has only …
Cardiovascular risk factors in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors using educational attainment to indicate socioeconomic status. DESIGN--Behavioural data, physical measurements, blood pressure, and lipid determination collected in three, successive multicentre cross sectional community surveys conducted in 1980, 1983, and 1989. SETTING--The six state capital cities of Australia; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide,…
Behind the magical mystery door
In rock historiography, Abbey Road Studios is depicted as the rock canon's ultimate recording house; home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and a generation of classic rock album production. In recent years, the studio has struggled to maintain itself as an operational recording house, yet effectively exploits its past to secure its future. This article considers issues of heritage, pilgrimage and tourism before elucidating brand 'Abbey Road' as a confl…
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Neighborhood Racial Composition; and Hypertension Stage, Awareness, and Treatment Among Hypertensive Black Men in New York City
Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations
A clear distinction is often drawn between the functions of production and protection in organisations. This implies that they have twin capacities – for production and for protection – that in some respects will be interdependent and in some independent. In the field of operations management productive capacity is a commonly used construct, and there has been some attempt to develop a parallel construct of protective capacity, but this has only …
Endorsing the Street Code
Extensive empirical research has demonstrated a strong association between the code of the street and gang violence among inmates within correctional settings. Largely absent from this literature is the prominence of Street Code beliefs among incarcerated youth populations. Using data from a sample of 306 adolescent males, analyses were conducted to assess the likelihood of Street Code endorsement among incarcerated youth from communities with ga…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
A longitudinal ethnographic study of night‐freight pilots
This paper records the lived reality of night‐freight operations at a UK‐registered airline. Observations were made over an 18‐month period. The paper answers calls for more research into the working and living conditions of night‐freight pilots. Pilots perceived numerous issues. These included cultural cleavage, terms and conditions, roster instability and the impact of night flying on physical and psychological health. Some issues (volatile ros…
Cardiovascular risk factors in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors using educational attainment to indicate socioeconomic status. DESIGN--Behavioural data, physical measurements, blood pressure, and lipid determination collected in three, successive multicentre cross sectional community surveys conducted in 1980, 1983, and 1989. SETTING--The six state capital cities of Australia; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide,…
Trauma et psychanalyse. Comment l'inimaginable et l'indicible ont traumatisé la psychanalyse ; suggestions de voies de guérison dans ce domaine
Simon Bennett. Trauma et psychanalyse. Comment l’inimaginable et l’indicible ont traumatisé la psychanalyse ; suggestions de voies de guérison dans ce domaine. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°167, 2001. L'enfance perdue. Les traumas précoces selon Ferenczi. pp. 12-27
Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations
A clear distinction is often drawn between the functions of production and protection in organisations. This implies that they have twin capacities – for production and for protection – that in some respects will be interdependent and in some independent. In the field of operations management productive capacity is a commonly used construct, and there has been some attempt to develop a parallel construct of protective capacity, but this has only …
Defensive capacity
In their paper ‘Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations: The Implications of the Überlingen and Linate Disasters’ Busby and Bennett attribute the ‘defensive capacity’ of an airspace system to the behaviour of those who constitute its production‐protection space (first‐line producers like avionics manufacturers, airlines, pilots' groups and airport authorities). This paper argues that an airspace system's defensive capacity is also a f…
Analysing the risks of individual and collective intentionality
The risk assessment of complex systems often seems to neglect the way in which intentions, collective and individual, are central to our explanations of how risk arises in such systems. Contradictions among the intentions of different actors, for example, are typically an important part of our understanding of how organizations break down. Moreover, risk assessment practice pays little attention to the reflexive problem of how intentions for the …
A longitudinal ethnographic study of night‐freight pilots
This paper records the lived reality of night‐freight operations at a UK‐registered airline. Observations were made over an 18‐month period. The paper answers calls for more research into the working and living conditions of night‐freight pilots. Pilots perceived numerous issues. These included cultural cleavage, terms and conditions, roster instability and the impact of night flying on physical and psychological health. Some issues (volatile ros…
Never Mind the Bollocks
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was a record made under highly unorthodox circumstances. In this article, four contextual cornerstones of record production study are considered: the recording workplace (studio); recordist(s); the sound recording and production technology; and production processes and techniques. The tech-processual context of Never Mind the Bollocks is considered in full, before a detailed production analysis of t…
Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management
Buku ini membahas masalah keamanan dan keamanan sipil. Ini mencakup pengelolaan risiko dan bahaya sosio-teknis, risiko lingkungan, dampak sosial dan ekonomi. Selain itu, juga membahas terorisme, ketertiban umum, tanggap darurat, pasokan energi, perubahan iklim, bencana alam, dan masalah terkait ketenagakerjaan, semuanya dalam konteks sosial yang memprioritaskan pengurangan risikonya
Pilot workload and fatigue on short-haul routes
In the context of claims that the European Aviation Safety Agency’s flight and duty- time regulations pose a threat to safety, pilot workload and fatigue were assessed on two short-haul routes using a mixed-methods approach. Data produced by the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Crew Status Survey (CSS) showed that pilots rarely assessed workload and fatigue to be high-risk. Data produced by an ethnographic study somewhat contradicted the…
Behind the magical mystery door
In rock historiography, Abbey Road Studios is depicted as the rock canon's ultimate recording house; home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and a generation of classic rock album production. In recent years, the studio has struggled to maintain itself as an operational recording house, yet effectively exploits its past to secure its future. This article considers issues of heritage, pilgrimage and tourism before elucidating brand 'Abbey Road' as a confl…
Does Learning About Near-Death Experiences Promote Psycho-Spiritual Benefits in Those Who Have Not Had a Near-Death Experience
Research has revealed a consistent pattern of positive aftereffects in those who report a near-death experience [NDE]. Beneficial outcomes are also possible for those who have not had a NDE, but instead learn about them, although much of this research has been conducted on therapeutic populations. Using a sample of 143 participants randomly assigned to either an intervention or non-intervention group, we investigated whether learning about NDEs g…
Songs about fucking
This article posits North London's Southern Studios and its late founding recordist John Loder as responsible for the construction of a sonically discernible production aesthetics befitting a subversive music. Blending phonomusicological work on the recording workplace and recordists, original ethnographic work, as well as tech-processual analyses of two key recordings, Crass' "Do They Owe Us A Living?" and Big Black's "The Power of Independent T…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Neighborhood Racial Composition; and Hypertension Stage, Awareness, and Treatment Among Hypertensive Black Men in New York City
Pilot workload and fatigue on four intra-European routes
There were predictions that the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA’s) new Flight Time Limitations (FTLs) (European Union Regulation 83/2014) would adversely affect safety. Following implementation of the new regulations, research into flight-crew fatigue and workload was conducted at a medium-sized U.K-registered low-cost carrier (LCC). A mixed-methods approach drawing on instantaneous self-assessment (ISA) and participant observation was us…
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Who produces sound and music? And in what spaces, localities and contexts? As the production of sound and music in the 21st Century converges with multimedia, these questions are critically addressed in this new edited collection by Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates. Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound features 16 brand new articles by leading thinkers from the fields of music, audio engineering, anthropology and media. Innova…
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of
The 2018 Gosport Independent Panel report into deaths at the National Health Service’s Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Does the culture of the medical profession influence health outcomes
The 2018 Gosport Independent Panel report into deaths at the National Health Service’s Gosport War Memorial Hospital highlighted numerous organisational failings. With the aid of systems theory, this commentary identifies the root causes of events at Gosport. It is concluded that money spent on patient-safety initiatives will be wasted unless the root causes of error and malpractice are eliminated
A scoping review of post‐disaster social support investigations conducted after disasters that struck the Australia and Oceania continent
This scoping review provides a summary of research findings on social support dynamics in the wake of disasters that occurred on the continent of Australia and Oceania between 1983 and 2013. Forty‐one studies, quantitative and qualitative, were summarised, investigating different facets of post‐disaster supportive interactions. All inquiries assessed disasters resulting from natural hazards, with the majority of them conducted following events in…
Endorsing the Street Code
Extensive empirical research has demonstrated a strong association between the code of the street and gang violence among inmates within correctional settings. Largely absent from this literature is the prominence of Street Code beliefs among incarcerated youth populations. Using data from a sample of 306 adolescent males, analyses were conducted to assess the likelihood of Street Code endorsement among incarcerated youth from communities with ga…
Look at all those big knobs! Online audio technology discourse and sexy gear fetishes
Despite a predominantly digital, 21st century music production landscape, analogue hardware professional audio technologies persist. In the discoursal throes of the leading online audio technology message forum Gearslutz, such technologies are routinely objectified, sexualized, fetishized and socialized into gear. Situated in a contemporary critical, interdisciplinary framework of fetish, masculinity and sexuality studies, this research interroga…
Atomic blackmail – Russia-Ukraine war and Ramberg’s theory of vulnerability
The Russia-Ukraine War is being fought between states committed to nuclear power.This paper references Ramberg's nuclear powerplant (NPP) vulnerability treatise, the IAEA's Seven Pillars of Safety metric and Pidgeon and O'Leary's safety imagination approach to assess the safety of Ukrainian and Russian NPPs.It suggests governments should reflect on events in Ukraine, and, with reference to the above-mentioned approaches, decide whether the upside…
Foregrounding threats to disaster investigations with actor-network theory
To create a safer world, it is vital that lessons are learned from near-misses, incidents and accidents and that those lessons are, through active learning, translated into practical, safety-oriented actions. Not unnaturally, vested interests – fearful of the consequences of being associated with the event in question – may seek to delay, deflect or halt whatever investigation is called for or authorised. Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT), th…
Co-researching with primary school students to retrace their digital footprint
Young children are extensively datafied today even from before birth where families may share information about them or allow them to use digital technologies at a very young age. Schools typically collect children's data for compliance and to construct a set of norms and deviance in predicting risks and educational outcomes, often without children's knowledge and consent. Yet, children's understanding of their digital footprints is limited by th…
Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data
The use of digital services and technologies have become integral to participating in civic life. However, with each interaction, data or information relating to the user is collected. In the case of children, data about them may be collected from before birth where others such as family members share information about them through posting on social media or signing up to services. In this exploratory study, we sought to uncover the digital dilem…
“I’m too young to be frail!”. HIV and attitudes on ageing, quality of life and being assessed for frailty
The attitudes of People Living with HIV (PLWH) towards frailty and maintaining quality of life (QOL) whilst ageing is largely unknown. This study examines how PLWH perceive being assessed for frailty and ageing, and the importance of QOL as they age. 40 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Many of the participants voiced that ageing was unexpected and were unprepared for this. Main themes for ageing included self-determination and loss of i…
Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Occupational Health and Safety Research (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works)