The GSPR, formed at the end of the 1990s, brings togethers two distinct sets of work: Pragmatic Sociology of Business, Controversy, and Crises and Information Technology exploring the use of new technologies in the Humanities.

GSPR's research is clustered around 7 inter-related areas:

• Sociology of Warning and Risk;
• Sociology of Controversy and Public Debate;
• Digital Sociology or Socio-Information;
• Sociology of Expertise;
• Future Modelling;
• Sociology of New Forms of Power and Control;
• Forms of International Mobilisation.