Bridget M. Hutter was a British sociologist. Hutter attended the

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, where she studied sociology, and later earned a doctorate in the subject from the

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. She began teaching at Oxford and later moved to the

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, serving as director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation from 2000 to 2010. Hutter is a fellow of the

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and the

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. Hutter was named chief editor of the ''

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'' in 2003. That same year, the journal began appearing within the digital library

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. Under her editorship in 2004, the publication switched publishers, from

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. Colin Mills succeeded Hutter as editor-in-chief in 2007, and she remained general editor of the journal through 2008.

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