Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Horlick-Jones, T. (published online in 2011) “Understanding fear of cancer recurrence in terms of damage to ‘everyday health competence’”, Sociology of Health & Illness.

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Prades, Ana; and Espluga, Josep (published online in 2010) “Investigating the degree of ‘stigma’ associated with nuclear power technologies: a cross-cultural examination of the case of fusion power”, Public Understanding of Science.

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Walls, John; Rowe, Gene; Pidgeon, Nick; Poortinga, Wouter; Murdock, Graham; and O’Riordan, Tim (2007; paperback 2009), The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement Routledge, London.

“a hallmark contribution…..a hint of one productive direction the future sociology of risk might take”
From the review in Sociology, February 2009 of Horlick-Jones, Tom (2007) ‘On the Signature of new technologies: sociality, materiality and practical reasoning’ in Flynn, Rob and Bellaby, Paul (eds.) Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp.41-65.

Selected Publications

Selected Books and Monographs

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Walls, John; Rowe, Gene; Pidgeon, Nick; Poortinga, Wouter; Murdock, Graham; and O’Riordan, Tim (2007; paperback 2009), The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement Routledge, London.

Petts, Judith; Horlick-Jones, Tom; and Murdock, Graham (2001) Social Amplification of Risk: the Media and the Public HSE Books, Sudbury. 

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Amendola, Aniello; and Casale, Riccardo (eds.) (1995) Natural Risk and Civil Protection, E&FN Spon, London. 

Horlick-Jones, Tom (1990) Acts Of God? An Investigation into Disasters, EPICentre & Association of London Authorities, London. This monograph, which has been out-of-print for some years, is an interesting historical document, comprising as it does a robust intervention in debates about the re-structuring of British emergency planning at the end of the Cold War. It also provides an empirically-grounded model of how systems in technologically-advanced societies can become vulnerable to catastrophic failure. At the time, the publication of this document generated considerable media coverage, and interest from policy analysts, politicians, emergency planners and a range of scholars.

Selected Papers

Horlick-Jones, T. (published online in 2011) “Understanding fear of cancer recurrence in terms of damage to ‘everyday health competence’”, Sociology of Health & Illness.

Horlick-Jones, T. and Farré, J. (2010) ‘On the communicative constitution of risk objects in mediated times’ in Horlick-Jones, T. and Farré, J. (eds.) The Communicative Turn in Risk Communication: Theory and Practice. Special issue of the Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2(2): 131-143..

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Prades, Ana; and Espluga, Josep (published online in 2010) “Investigating the degree of ‘stigma’ associated with nuclear power technologies: a cross-cultural examination of the case of fusion power”, Public Understanding of Science.

Horlick-Jones, Tom; and Prades, Ana (2009) ‘On interpretative risk perception research: some reflections on its origins; its nature; and its possible applications in risk communication practice’, Health, Risk & Society 11(5): 409-430.

Horlick-Jones, Tom (2009) ‘Finding a way between nihilism and romanticism: some reflections on the practice and politics of the sociology of risk’, Health, Risk & Society 11(2): 91-98.

Horlick-Jones, Tom (2008) “Reasoning about safety management policy in everyday terms: a pilot study in citizen engagement for the UK railway industry”, Journal of Risk Research 11(6): 679-718.

Prades López, Ana; Horlick-Jones, Tom; Oltra, Christian; and Solá, Rosario (2008) ‘Lay perceptions of nuclear fusion: multiple modes of understanding’, Science and Public Policy, 35(2) pp.95-105.

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Walls, John; and Kitzinger, Jenny (2007) ‘Bricolage in action: learning about, making sense of, and discussing issues about genetically modified crops and food’, Health, Risk & Society, 9(1) pp.83-103.

Horlick-Jones, Tom; Rowe, Gene; and Walls, John (2007) ‘Engagement processes as information systems: the role of knowledge and the concept of translation quality’, Public Understanding of Science, 16(3) pp.259-278 (selected in a competitive process to appear in a special issue of this international journal on ‘the state of the art’ in public engagement).

Horlick-Jones, Tom; and Rosenhead, Jonathan (2007) ‘The uses of observation: combining problem structuring methods and ethnography’, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58, pp.588-601.

Belousov, Konstantin; Horlick-Jones, Tom; Bloor, Michael; Gilinskiy, Yakov; Golbert, Valentin; Kostikovsky, Yakov; Levi, Michael; and Pentsov, Dmitri (2007) ‘Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings’, Qualitative Research, 7(2) pp.155-175.

Horlick-Jones, Tom (2005) ‘Informal logics of risk: contingency and modes of practical reasoning’, Journal of Risk Research, 8(3) pp.253-272.

Horlick-Jones, Tom (2005) "On ‘risk work’: professional discourse, accountability and everyday action" Health, Risk & Society, 7(3) pp.293-307.