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What inspires Professor Hopkins?

I write because I have something to say about these accidents that no one else is saying. When I sat down to write the book on the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout of 2010, at least a dozen other authors had already beaten me to. But not one of their books dealt with the organisational causes of the accident. My book therefore filled a gap. I am baffled by this gap. What I am doing is applied sociology, but it seems that few other sociologists are interested in applying themselves in this way.

What keeps me going?

I enjoy what I do. I am fascinated by the way organisations work and the way they fail and I get great satisfaction thinking and writing about these things.

A reviewer said about my Moura book that it had the ”right balance of quiet outrage and scholarly thoroughness”. As an academic, I cannot imagine a greater complement.

— Professor Andrew Hopkins