Professor Denis Fischbacher-Smith

Research Chair in Risk and Resilience (Management)

telephone: 01413306605
email: Denis.Fischbacher-Smith@glasgow.ac.uk

College of Social Sciences, Adam Smith Business School, Gilbert Scott Building

Biography

Before moving to Glasgow, he was Professor of Management at the University of Liverpool where he was also the founding director of the University of Liverpool Management School, which he was appointed to establish in January 2002. Whilst at Liverpool, he also headed the Science Enterprise Centre (ULSEC). Prior to Liverpool he was previously Professor of Management at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham and John Moores (where he was also Director of the Management School). He has also been a visiting professor at the Universities of Kobe (Japan), San Diego State (USA) and Innsbruck (Austria). He has been a visiting fellow at the Wolfson Institute at the University of Durham and a visiting professor at Brunel University. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Manchester and both Leicester and Nottingham Polytechnics. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Risk Management at the Crighton Institute (Dumfries), Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), and at Edge Hill University.

A graduate of the Universities of Manchester, Glasgow, St Andrews, the Open University, GCU, Derby, and the CNAA, Professor Fischbacher-Smith holds Batchelor’s degrees in Geography/Environmental Science (BEd) and Science (BSc), Masters degrees in Pollution Control (MSc), Applied Psychology (MSc), Psychology in Forensic Settings (MSc), Ergonomics (MSc), Management (MBA), Terrorism Studies (MLitt), War Studies (MLitt), and Public Health (MPH). He holds a DLitt in Crisis Management (Glasgow) and a PhD in Science and Technology Policy (Manchester). His doctoral thesis was concerned with the role of risk analytical data in policy making around major hazard installations.

In terms of his professional background, he is a Member of the Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators (MIIAI), and holds Fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Security Institute (FSyI), the Emergency Planning Society (FEPS), the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (FCIEHF) and the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He is also a Chartered Geographer (CGeog), a Chartered Security Professional (CSyP), a Chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors Specialist (C.ErgHF), a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), and a Chartered Manager (CMgr). In addition, he is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (CCMI), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA)

Professor Fischbacher-Smith’s work has been concerned with issues of risk management, business continuity and resilience and this has been carried out over a 30-year period. His early work was concerned with the evacuation of urban areas due to extreme events – an interest he maintains to this day. He has also undertaken research on the training and performance of crisis management teams, the production of emergency/contingency plans (and their limitations), the processes by which vulnerability can be generated within organisations and the role of external and internal threat actors in organisational security. He has published widely in the area of crisis management and has been a regular consultant to a number of ‘Blue chip’ companies as well as local authorities, the emergency services, and Government. He has been an adviser to the Government of Lesotho (in Southern Africa) on crisis preparedness, the UK’s Department of Health around issues of adverse events in health care, he was a tutor on the senior command course for the UK’s Prison Service, has been a regular speaker at the Emergency Planning College, and he has also worked with a number of regulatory bodies in the UK and Europe.

Outside of his academic activities, Professor Fischbacher-Smith has been a director of HARM Consulting and CSC Ltd, as well as a non-executive director of JMU Services, Mersey Regional Ambulance Service, St Helens RLFC and Aintree University Hospital NHS Trust. In terms of policy development, he was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee that produced “An Organisation with a Memory” for the Department of Health (England and Wales).

Research interests

Denis is a member of the Strategy and Technology Management research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Risk and Resilience
Crisis Management
Patient Safety
Decision Making & Strategic Management
Corporate Security

Publications

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Number of items: 110.

2023

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Unleashing “currents of curiosity”: reconfiguring learning design using academic comics in higher education. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), pp. 296-303. (doi: 10.1177/21695067231194989)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Addressing the risk paradox: Exploring the demand challenges around risk and uncertainty and the supply side of calculative practices. In: Eyal, G. and Medvetz, T. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 401-432. ISBN 9780190848927 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190848927.013.18)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Beyond Bounce Back: A systems perspective on resilience, information and the potential for crisis. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Living on factory row: exploring the causal aspects of criminal behaviours. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) To the gutters and beyond: or “how I learned to use a comics-based perspective when writing academic papers”. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) A walk on the wild side: the application of psychology in a hostile environment. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

2022

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Okey-Adibe, T. and Audu, J. (2022) Strategies to build trust and COVID-19 vaccine confidence and engagement among minority groups in Scotland. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 13(6), pp. 890-902. (doi: 10.1007/s13753-022-00458-7) (PMCID:PMC9743126)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Adekola, J. (2022) Lessons learned from COVID-19 and the implications for resilience research, policy and practice. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 30(3), pp. 226-230. (doi: 10.1111/1468-5973.12413)

2021

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2021) Suppressing the ‘seeker of truth’ in the Covid-19 pandemic: medical populism, radical uncertainty, and the assault on expertise. In: Waring, A. (ed.) The New Authoritarianism. Volume 3: A Risk Analysis of the Corporate/Radical-Right Axis. ibidem: Hanover, pp. 301-346. ISBN 9783838214931

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2021) Framing business schools as a socio-technical system – issues around complexity and emergence. In: Lindgreen, A., Irwin, A., Poulfelt, F. and Thomsen, T.U. (eds.) How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

2020

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2020) Presenting a ‘virtual’ paper in a ‘virtual’ conference: adapting to the challenges posed by a pandemic. EASST Review, 39(2), pp. 23-29.

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2020) Inherent complexities of a multi-stakeholder approach to building community resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 11, pp. 32-45. (doi: 10.1007/s13753-020-00246-1)

2019

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2019) In Search of Resilience. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2019) Light me up: power and expertise in risk communication and policy-making in the e-cigarette health debates. Journal of Risk Research, 22(10), pp. 1294-1308. (doi: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1473463)

2018

Bongiovanni, I. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) Governance of disaster management. In: Farazmand, A. (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer. ISBN 9783319209272

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2018) Building community resilience to natural hazards: Lessons from Katrina. Other. National Centre for Resilience (NCR). (Unpublished)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) Afraid of MICE? Human Factors and Organisational Security. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) Hazard, vulnerability, and the transition to crisis. In: Strang, K. D., Korstanje, M. E. and Vajjhala, N. (eds.) Research, Practices, and Innovations in Global Risk and Contingency Management. IGI Global: Hershey, PA, xv-xxii. ISBN 9781522547549 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4754-9)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) When I grow up I want to be a comic: storytelling, graphic novels and visualisation in the teaching of risk. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

2017

Oliver, S. W., Campbell, J., Kingsmore, D. B., Kasthuri, R., Metcalfe, W., Traynor, J. P., Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Jardine, A. G. and Thomson, P. C. (2017) A national appraisal of haemodialysis vascular access provision in Scotland. Journal of Vascular Access, 18(2), pp. 126-131. (doi: 10.5301/jva.5000651) (PMID:28165579)

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, M., Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Adekola, O. A. (2017) Health risks from environmental degradation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 35(2), pp. 334-354. (doi: 10.1177/0263774X16661720)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2017) When organisational effectiveness fails: business continuity management and the paradox of performance. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 4(1), pp. 89-107. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-01-2017-0002)

2016

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2016) Framing the UK’s counter-terrorism policy within the context of a wicked problem. Public Money and Management, 36(6), pp. 399-408. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2016.1200801)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2016) Leadership and crisis: incubation, emergence, and transitions. In: Storey, J. (ed.) Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends [3rd Ed.]. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 70-96. ISBN 9781138905689

Dudau, A. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. and McAllister, L. (2016) The unsung heroes of welfare collaboration: complexities around individuals’ contribution to effective inter-agency working in LSCBs. Public Management Review, 18(10), pp. 1536-1558. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2016.1148190)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2016) Breaking bad? In search of a (softer) systems view of security ergonomics. Security Journal, 29(1), pp. 5-22. (doi: 10.1057/sj.2015.41)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2016) Crisis management as a critical perspective. Journal of Management Development, 35(7), pp. 930-940. (doi: 10.1108/JMD-10-2014-0115)

Mercer, S. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Furler, J., Sanci, L., Moffat, K. and de Silva, D. (2016) Safer Primary Care: Caring for People with Multiple Conditions. Technical Report. World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Mercer, S. , Furler, J., Moffat, K., Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Sanci, L. (2016) Multimorbidity: Technical Series on Safer Primary Care. World Health Organization: Geneva. ISBN 9789241511650

2015

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2015) Through a glass darkly: expertise, evidence, and the management of uncertainty. Risk Management, 17(4), pp. 352-372. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2015.19)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Smith, L. (2015) Navigating the 'dark waters of globalisation': global markets, inequalities, and the spatial dynamics of risk. Risk Management, 17(3), pp. 179-203. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2015.12)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2015) The enemy has passed through the gate: insider threats, the dark triad, and the challenges around security. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 2(2), pp. 134-156. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-03-2015-0010)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2015) Putting Humpty together again: developing resilience within growth cycles. In: Jolly, A. (ed.) The Growing Business Handbook:Inspiration and Advice from Successful Entrepreneurs and Fast Growing UK Companies. Kogan Page: London, pp. 25-36. ISBN 9780749473150

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2015) The symbiosis of failure: the strategic dynamics of risk and resilience. In: Andersen, T. (ed.) Routledge Companion on Strategic Risk Management. Series: Routledge companions in business,management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9781138016514

2014

Brookfield, D., Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Mohd-Rahim, F. and Boussabaine, H. (2014) Conceptualising and responding to risk in IT projects. Risk Management, 16(3), pp. 195-230. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2014.10)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2014) What lies beneath? The role of informal and hidden networks in the management of crises. Financial Accountability and Management, 30(3), pp. 259-278. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12038)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2014) The dark side of effectiveness – risk and crisis as the "destroyer of worlds". Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 1(4), pp. 338-348. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-10-2014-0062)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2014) Organisational ineffectiveness: environmental shifts and the transition to crisis. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 1(4), pp. 423-446. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-09-2014-0061)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2014) When Good Management Theory Hits the Fan: Crisis Management and the Challenge to the Rational-Positivistic Paradigm of MBA Programmes. In: 2014 EFMD Higher Education Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-16 May 2014,

2013

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2013) Foreign policy crises. In: Penuel, K.B., Statler, M. and Hagen, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA. ISBN 9781452226125

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2013) Paradigm blindness. In: Penuel, K.B., Statler, M. and Hagen, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA. ISBN 9781452226125

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2013) Tales of the unexpected: issues around the development of a crisis management module for the MBA program. Journal of Management Education, 37(1), pp. 51-78. (doi: 10.1177/1052562912455664)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2013) The vulnerability of public spaces: challenges for UK hospitals under the 'new' terrorist threat. Public Management Review, 15(3), pp. 330-343. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2013.769851)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2013) Hospitals as Sites for Crisis from Extreme Events. In: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 9-12 Oct 2013,

2012

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2012) Getting pandas to breed: Paradigm blindness and the policy space for risk prevention, mitigation and management. Risk Management, 14(3), pp. 177-201. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2012.6)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2012) Barriers to organizational learning. In: Steel, N. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, pp. 407-409. ISBN 9781441914279 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2012) Ethical Spaces: Health Care, Patient Safety, and the Search for Social Responsibility. In: Royal Geographical Society - IBG Annual International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 Jul 2012,

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2012) Fractured Spaces - Challenges for (Public) Health Under the 'New' Terrorist Threats. In: Royal Geographical Society - IBG Annual International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 Jul 2012,

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2012) Under Dark Skies: The Vulnerability of Cities to Terrorist Attack. In: Royal Geographical Society - IBG Annual International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 Jul 2012,

Franco Villoria, M., Scott, E.M. , Hoey, T. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2012) Temporal investigation of flow variability in Scottish rivers using wavelet analysis. Journal of Environmental Statistics, 3(6),

2011

Boin, A. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2011) The importance of failure theories in assessing crisis management: The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster revisited. Policy and Society, 30(2), pp. 77-87. (doi: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2011.03.003)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2011) Destructive landscapes - (Re)framing elements of risk? Risk Management, 13(1-2), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2011.4)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2011) Human Networks: Contesting Control, Incubation and the Escalation of Crises. In: New Public Sector Seminar, Edinburgh, UK, 10 Nov 2011,

Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Fischbacher-Smith, M. and Scott, M. (2011) Let Me Get Back to You on That – Error Cost, Uncertainty and the Management of Extreme Events. In: ISI 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland, 21-26 Aug 2011,

Smith, A., Casey, K., Wilson, J. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2011) Wristbands as aids to reduce misidentification: an ethnographically-guided task analysis. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 23(5), pp. 590-599. (doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzr045)

2010

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) Beyond the worse case scenario: Managing the risks of extreme events. Risk Management, 12(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2009.17)

Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (Eds.) (2010) Risk communication and public health. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199562848

Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) Embedding better practice in risk communication and public health. In: Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (eds.) Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 317-326. ISBN 9780199562848 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.20)

Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) Understanding public responses to risk: issues around policy and practice. In: Bennet, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (eds.) Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 3-22. ISBN 9780199562848 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.01)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Calman, K. (2010) A precautionary tale - the role of the precautionary principle in policy making for public health. In: Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press, pp. 197-211. ISBN 978-0-19-956284-8 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.13)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Fischbacher-Smith, M. and BaMaung, D. (2010) Where do we go from here? The evacuation of city centres and the communication of public health risks from extreme events. In: Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (eds.) Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 97-114. ISBN 978-0-19-956284-8

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Hudson, R. (2010) Exporting Pandora's box- exploitation, risk communication and public health problems associated with the export of hazard. In: Bennet, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (eds.) Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 245-260. ISBN 9780199562848 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.16)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Irwin, A. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2010) Bringing light to the shadows and shadows to the light: risk, risk management, and risk communication. In: Bennet, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (eds.) Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9780199562848 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.02)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. , Fischbacher-Smith, M. and Irwin, A. (2010) Monsters Under the Bed: Exploring the Shadowy Spaces Around Risk in Public Health and Environmental Impact. In: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 25-29 Aug 2010,

2009

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2009) We may remember but what did we learn? Dealing with errors, crimes and misdemeanours around adverse events in healthcare. Financial Accountability and Management, 25(4), pp. 451-474. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2009.00487.x)

Harris, R.V., Dancer, J.M., Smith, D. and Campbell, S. (2009) The use of conversation mapping to frame key perceptual issues facing the general dental practice system in England. Community Dental Health, 26(2), pp. 84-91. (doi: 10.1922/CDH_2279Harris08)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2009) The changing nature of risk and risk management: the challenge of borders, uncertainty and resilience. Risk Management, 11(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2009.1)

Dudau, A., Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2009) Interacting Identities in Welfare Partnerships. In: 13th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, 06-08 Apr 2009,

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2009) Managing Risk Within a Fitness Landscape: Issues in Resilience, Control And Failure. In: Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22-27 Mar 2009,

2008

Hunter-Jones, P., Jeffs, A. and Smith, D. (2008) Backpacking your way into crisis: an exploratory study into perceived risk and tourist behaviour amongst young people. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, 23(2-4), pp. 237-247. (doi: 10.1300/J073v23n02_18)

Harris, R.V., Ashcroft, A., Burnside, G., Dancer, J.M., Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Grieveson, B. (2008) Facets of job satisfaction of dental practitioners working in different organisational settings in England. British Dental Journal, 204(E1), E1. (doi: 10.1038/bdj.2007.1204)

Pelling, M., High, C., Dearing, J. and Smith, D. (2008) Shadow spaces for social learning: a relational understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations. Environment and Planning A, 40(4), pp. 867-884. (doi: 10.1068/a39148)

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2008) Managerial responses to catastrophic events. In: Organization Science Winter Conference, Reno, NV, USA, 7-10 Feb 2008,

2007

Docherty, I. and Smith, D. (2007) Practicing what we preach? Academic consultancy in a multi-disciplinary environment. Public Money and Management, 27(4), pp. 273-280. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2007.00594.x)

Brookfield, D. and Smith, D. (2007) Managerial intervention and instability in healthcare organisations: the role of complexity in explaining the scope of effective management. Risk Management, 8(4), pp. 268-293. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.rm.8250018)

Elliott, D. and Smith, D. (2007) Voices from the terrace: from 'mock bureaucracy' to learning from crisis within the UK's football industry. In: Pearson, C. and Roux-Dufort, C. (eds.) International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management. SAGE: Los Angeles. ISBN 9780761988519

Holmes, L., Brookfield, D. and Smith, D. (2007) Business evolution: how fit is your business? Merseyside and North Wales Business Prospect, 5(2), pp. 31-33.

Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (2007) Exploring the barriers to learning from crisis: organizational learning and crisis. Management Learning, 38(5), pp. 519-538. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607083205)

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2007) What’s That Coming Over The Hill, is it a Doctor? In: British Association of Medical Managers Annual Conference, London, UK, Jun 2007,

2006

Smith, D. and Barton, L. (2006) Explorations in a fractured landscape. Communication Director, 1(1), pp. 63-69.

Boin, A. and Smith, D. (2006) Terrorism and critical infrastructures: implications for public-private crisis management. Public Money and Management, 26(5), pp. 295-304. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2006.00543.x)

Smith, D. (2006) Terrorism and public management. Public Money and Management, 26(5), pp. 271-273. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2006.00537.x)

Elliott, D. and Smith, D. (2006) Cultural readjustment after crisis: regulation and learning from crisis within the UK soccer industry. Journal of Management Studies, 43(2), pp. 289-317. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00591.x)

Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (Eds.) (2006) Key Readings in Crisis Management: Systems and Structures for Prevention and Recovery. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415315203

Elliott, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2006) Responding to the demands of crisis: issues around future developments in theory and practice. In: Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (eds.) Key Readings in Crisis Management. Systems and structures for prevention and recovery. Routledge: London, pp. 415-425. ISBN 9780415315210

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2006) Crisis management - practice in search of a paradigm. In: Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (eds.) Key Readings in Crisis Management: Systems and structures for Prevention and Recovery. Routledge: London, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780415315203

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2006) The crisis of management: managing ahead of the curve. In: Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (eds.) Key Readings in Crisis Management: Systems and structures for Prevention and Recovery. Routledge: London, 301 -317. ISBN 9780415315203

Smith, D. (2006) 'Et tu Brutus': public management in times of crisis. In: Lavender, M. (ed.) What is Public Management For? Public Management and Policy Association: London, pp. 35-39. ISBN 1845080793

Smith, D. (2006) Modelling the crisis management process: approaches and limitations. In: Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (eds.) Key Readings in Crisis Management. Systems and Structures for Prevention and Recovery. Routledge: London, 99 -114. ISBN 0415315212

Smith, D. and Irwin, A. (2006) Complexity, risk and emergence: elements of a 'management' dilemma. Risk Management, 8(4), pp. 221-226. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.rm.8250024)

2005

Smith, D. (2005) Dancing around the mysterious forces of chaos: exploring issues of complexity, knowledge and the management of uncertainty. Clinician in Management, 13(3/4), pp. 115-123.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2005) In the eyes of the beholder: making sense of the system(s) of disaster. In: Quarantelli, E.L. and Perry, R.W. (eds.) What is a Disaster? New Answers to Old Questions. Volume two in the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Disasters Series. Xlibris Press: Philadelphia, PA, pp. 201-236. ISBN 9781413479867

Smith, D. (2005) Accidents will happen... Or will they? Issues around governance, latent error and organisational failure. In: Guide to Global Corporate Social Responsibility. International Chamber of Commerce.. ISBN 9781904631149

Smith, D. (2005) Business (not) as usual: crisis management, service recovery and the vulnerability of organisations. Journal of Services Marketing, 19(5), pp. 309-320. (doi: 10.1108/08876040510609925)

Smith, D. (2005) Through a glass darkly - a response to Stallings' "Disaster, Crisis, Collective Stress, and Mass Deprivation". In: Quarantelli, E.L. and Perry, R.W. (eds.) What is a Disaster? New Answers to Old Questions. Xlibris Press: Philadelphia, PA, pp. 292-307. ISBN 1413479863

Smith, D. and Toft, B. (2005) Towards an organization with a memory: exploring the organizational generation of adverse events in health care. Health Services Management Research, 18(2), pp. 124-140. (doi: 10.1258/0951484053723144)

2004

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2004) For whom the bell tolls: imagining accidents and the development of crisis simulation in organisations. Simulation and Gaming, 35(3), pp. 347-362. (doi: 10.1177/1046878104266295)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2004) Performing as designed but not as intended? Managing cultural change in healthcare. Clinician in Management, 12(2), pp. 45-48.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2004) Oh 'system', where art thou? Capacity, chaos, performance and the search for solutions to a constantly adapting problem. Clinician in Management, 12(3), pp. 93-97.

2003

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2003) Exploring layers of reform? Tensions and conflicts around the human face of health care. Clinician in Management, 12(1), pp. 3-6.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Eades, E. (2003) The competent medical manager: issues in the management of health care professionals. Clinician in Management, 12(1), pp. 11-20.

Smallman, C. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2003) Patterns of managerial risk perceptions: exploring the dimensions of managers' accepted risks. Risk Management, 5(1), pp. 7-32. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.rm.8240137)

2002

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2002) Management and medicine: strange bedfellows or partners in crime. Clinician in Management, 11(4), pp. 159-162.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2002) Management and medicine: issues in quality, risk and culture. Clinician in Management, 11(1), pp. 1-6.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2002) Not by error, but by design: Harold Shipman and the regulatory crisis for health care. Public Policy and Administration, 17(4), pp. 55-74. (doi: 10.1177/095207670201700405)

2001

Calman, K. and Smith, D. (2001) Works in theory but not in practice? The role of the precautionary principle in public health policy. Public Administration, 79(1), pp. 185-204. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9299.00252)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2001) Crisis management. In: Michie, J. (ed.) Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Fitzroy Dearborn: London. ISBN 1579580912

Smith, D. (2001) Crisis as a catalyst for change: Issues in the management of uncertainty and organizational vulnerability. In: E-risk: Business as usual? British Bankers Association/Deloitte and Touche: London, 81 -88. ISBN 1874185174

Smith, D. (2001) The precautionary principle. In: Barry, J. and Frankland, G. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Routledge: London.

Smith, D. (2001) Risk assessment and management. In: Barry, J. and Frankland, G. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Routledge: London.

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Articles

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2020) Presenting a ‘virtual’ paper in a ‘virtual’ conference: adapting to the challenges posed by a pandemic. EASST Review, 39(2), pp. 23-29.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2016) Breaking bad? In search of a (softer) systems view of security ergonomics. Security Journal, 29(1), pp. 5-22. (doi: 10.1057/sj.2015.41)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2016) Crisis management as a critical perspective. Journal of Management Development, 35(7), pp. 930-940. (doi: 10.1108/JMD-10-2014-0115)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2015) Through a glass darkly: expertise, evidence, and the management of uncertainty. Risk Management, 17(4), pp. 352-372. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2015.19)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2011) Destructive landscapes - (Re)framing elements of risk? Risk Management, 13(1-2), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2011.4)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) Beyond the worse case scenario: Managing the risks of extreme events. Risk Management, 12(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1057/rm.2009.17)

Holmes, L., Brookfield, D. and Smith, D. (2007) Business evolution: how fit is your business? Merseyside and North Wales Business Prospect, 5(2), pp. 31-33.

Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (2007) Exploring the barriers to learning from crisis: organizational learning and crisis. Management Learning, 38(5), pp. 519-538. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607083205)

Smith, D. and Barton, L. (2006) Explorations in a fractured landscape. Communication Director, 1(1), pp. 63-69.

Smith, D. (2006) Terrorism and public management. Public Money and Management, 26(5), pp. 271-273. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2006.00537.x)

Smith, D. and Irwin, A. (2006) Complexity, risk and emergence: elements of a 'management' dilemma. Risk Management, 8(4), pp. 221-226. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.rm.8250024)

Smith, D. (2005) Dancing around the mysterious forces of chaos: exploring issues of complexity, knowledge and the management of uncertainty. Clinician in Management, 13(3/4), pp. 115-123.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2004) Performing as designed but not as intended? Managing cultural change in healthcare. Clinician in Management, 12(2), pp. 45-48.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2004) Oh 'system', where art thou? Capacity, chaos, performance and the search for solutions to a constantly adapting problem. Clinician in Management, 12(3), pp. 93-97.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2003) Exploring layers of reform? Tensions and conflicts around the human face of health care. Clinician in Management, 12(1), pp. 3-6.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Eades, E. (2003) The competent medical manager: issues in the management of health care professionals. Clinician in Management, 12(1), pp. 11-20.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2002) Management and medicine: strange bedfellows or partners in crime. Clinician in Management, 11(4), pp. 159-162.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2002) Management and medicine: issues in quality, risk and culture. Clinician in Management, 11(1), pp. 1-6.

Books

Mercer, S. , Furler, J., Moffat, K., Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Sanci, L. (2016) Multimorbidity: Technical Series on Safer Primary Care. World Health Organization: Geneva. ISBN 9789241511650

Book Sections

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2013) Foreign policy crises. In: Penuel, K.B., Statler, M. and Hagen, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA. ISBN 9781452226125

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2013) Paradigm blindness. In: Penuel, K.B., Statler, M. and Hagen, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA. ISBN 9781452226125

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2001) Crisis management. In: Michie, J. (ed.) Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Fitzroy Dearborn: London. ISBN 1579580912

Smith, D. (2001) The precautionary principle. In: Barry, J. and Frankland, G. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Routledge: London.

Smith, D. (2001) Risk assessment and management. In: Barry, J. and Frankland, G. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Routledge: London.

Edited Books

Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S. and Fischbacher-Smith, D. (Eds.) (2010) Risk communication and public health. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199562848

Smith, D. and Elliott, D. (Eds.) (2006) Key Readings in Crisis Management: Systems and Structures for Prevention and Recovery. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415315203

Research Reports or Papers

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Beyond Bounce Back: A systems perspective on resilience, information and the potential for crisis. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) Living on factory row: exploring the causal aspects of criminal behaviours. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) To the gutters and beyond: or “how I learned to use a comics-based perspective when writing academic papers”. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2023) A walk on the wild side: the application of psychology in a hostile environment. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2019) In Search of Resilience. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Adekola, J. , Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2018) Building community resilience to natural hazards: Lessons from Katrina. Other. National Centre for Resilience (NCR). (Unpublished)

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) Afraid of MICE? Human Factors and Organisational Security. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018) When I grow up I want to be a comic: storytelling, graphic novels and visualisation in the teaching of risk. Other. HARM Ltd/LBD Publications, Glasgow.

Conference Proceedings

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2013) Hospitals as Sites for Crisis from Extreme Events. In: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 9-12 Oct 2013,

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2011) Human Networks: Contesting Control, Incubation and the Escalation of Crises. In: New Public Sector Seminar, Edinburgh, UK, 10 Nov 2011,

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2008) Managerial responses to catastrophic events. In: Organization Science Winter Conference, Reno, NV, USA, 7-10 Feb 2008,

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2007) What’s That Coming Over The Hill, is it a Doctor? In: British Association of Medical Managers Annual Conference, London, UK, Jun 2007,

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Grants

Fischbacher-Smith, D. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2013) RCUK Global Uncertainties Impact Support Fund 2012/13. Award Value £ 4,944

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2012) ‘Dealing with complexity in strategy’, First Step Award, Scottish Enterprise. Award Value £5,000

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) ‘Self-healing, complexity and the protection of critical national infrastructure’, EPSRC Pathways to Impact Award. Award value £11,650

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) ‘Safety management processes’, First Step Award, Scottish Enterprise. Award Value £5,000

Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2010) ‘Managing maternity within human resource strategies’, First Step Award, Scottish Enterprise. Award Value £5,000

Smith, D. (2008) ‘Managing high performing teams’, First Step Award, Scottish Enterprise. Award Value £5,000

Smith, D. and Fischbacher, M. (2008-2012) “Under dark skies: Port cities, extreme events, multi-scale processes and the vulnerability of controls around counter terrorism”, EPRSC EP/G004889/1. Award Value: £365,156

Dodd, T., Wilson, L., Sun, T., Eftekhari, M., and Smith, D. (2008-2012) “Cargo screening – Ferret”, EPSRC under the Cargo Screening Initiative. EPSRC EP/G004307/1 Award Value: £703,441

Smith. D. and Fischbacher, M. (2007). Grant to support a visit to Japan, to set up a joint research centre in the area of risk and crisis management. Funding awarded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Award Value: £2,500.

Smith, D., Crawford, J., Pidd, M., Bell, S., and Winfield, A. (2007-2011) “Biological metaphors and crisis: building self-healing, emergence and resilience into critical infrastructures”. Funding Source: EPSRC EP/E062865/1. (Sept 2007-August 2010). Award Value: £342,988

Smith, D. (2006) Research into diversity practices within organisations in the North West of England. Funded by ACAS/NWDA. Award Value: £15,000

Smith, A., Smith, D., and Kane, M. (2006-2007) “An exploration of bedside checking processes for in-patients in the acute care setting” National Patient Safety Agency. Award Value £63,088

Brookfield, D. and Smith, D. (2006-2009) ‘Organisational performance within a fitness landscape’. Awarding body DTi/ESRC (KTP Project) Award Value: £110,804.

Supervision

PhD supervision areas

Professor Denis Fischbacher-Smith is interested in supervising PhD researchers in the areas of risk and crisis management; adverse events in health care; complexity and organisational performance (especially around health care organizations, public management and the emergency services); human error and systems failure; organizational learning (especially around adverse events); major accident analysis; and the role of embedded error cost in strategic change.

Current PhD students

Professor Fischbacher-Smith currently supervises several students in the area of risk and crisis management and critical national infrastructure where the focus is on inter-agency working, leadership and management capabilities, and systems that improve information management as it relates to these areas of work.

Kapralova, Natalia
Managing Digital Transformation.
Lombardo, Katherine
Protecting Meaning: Mapping the Cultural Heritage Security and Preservation Landscape

Teaching

Postgraduate

Courses taught:

Decision making under uncertainty (MBA)

Previously taught:

Critical Enquiry (MBA)
Crisis Management (MBA)
Spaces of Destruction (MA)

Undergraduate