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5th IET International Conference on System Safety 2010

DOI: 10.1049/cp.2010.0822

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Matching research goals and methods in system safety engineering

Proceedings article published in 2010 by Rd D. Alexander, Aj J. Rae ORCID, M. Nicholson
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Abstract

System safety research has a weakness in terms of evaluation. In particular, the field has a poor track record for applying appropriate research methods to the questions we wish to answer, and for evaluating the answers in a convincing way. Given changes in government and public attitudes to research funding, this will be an increasing concern in the near future. In this paper, we define a taxonomy of knowledge types which illustrates the problem and helps to solve it by matching types of questions with appropriate methods. We present prioritised suggestions for further action.