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Professor Bill Durodié is Chair of Risk and Security in International Relations at the
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, UK. He is a former head of the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies there. His 2011 articles investigating how the
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addressed the 2009 flu pandemic, anticipated the cultural and institutional responses to
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which, he proposed, would lead to considerably more fatalities than the virus itself. His concern since, was that the episode would lead to: ''"suspicion, avoidance and intolerance towards others, an unwillingness to embrace life’s uncertainties, fear of future emergencies, a dystopian, anti-human outlook and narrative, and all too willing acceptance of the curtailment of civil liberties, combined with a paralysing dependence on others"''.


Education

Durodié was educated at the
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, part of
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, where he studied
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. After completing a final year undergraduate project to map different types of
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onto the
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, he was invited to start a PhD in
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at the
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under the supervision of Professor
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. Accordingly, his first research publication was in theoretical astrophysics, based on a paper he presented at
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in 1986.


Early career

He then changed course, first pursuing a career in teaching (becoming Head of Maths at two inner-city
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s) and then urban regeneration (working in both the public and private sectors). During this time he also studied for a Master's degree in European Social Policy at the
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, and subsequently embarked on another PhD, this time in Politics, at the
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under the supervision of Professor
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. There, shortly after the
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in 2001, he met Professor Sir
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with whom he helped develop and then coordinated an
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funded project to study the responses to those events in collaboration with various researchers, including Professor Sir
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. Having left Oxford he completed his doctorate in Risk Communication through the Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management in the School of Health and Social Sciences of
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(UK), with
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acting as an external examiner.


As a Professor

His inaugural professorial lecture: The Politics of Risk and Resilience - Fear and Terror in a World without Meaning, was delivered on 29 October 2015. In June 2016, rejecting all of the official campaigns, he argued on the grounds of democratic accountability and moral autonomy for the UK to give up its membership of the European Union. He noted soon after the vote that, despite the largest mandate in British history, politicians and others would seek to deliver
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in name alone, but not in spirit. He was formerly Professor in the School of Humanitarian Studies at
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in Victoria, British Columbia, where he was Program Head for the Conflict Analysis and Management programs. He maintains an on-going role as an Associate Faculty member there. Before that he held positions coordinating the Homeland Defence research programme and then the Health and Human Security research programme within the
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of
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in Singapore, as well as in the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis at
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, part of the
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at Shrivenham, and in the War Studies Group of
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. In 2014 he was appointed as a Visiting Professor to CELAP – the
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– one of China's top four national 'Party Schools', in Shanghai - a position officially renewed in 2018. He has also conducted short courses for officials through the Shanghai Administration Institute, and writes on the West's evolving relations with China, as well as recent events surrounding the protests in Hong Kong. He was an Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme at
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- Europe's leading think-tank - in London for over a decade. His main research interest is to examine the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of
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, as well as how these are framed and communicated across a wide range of contemporary social issues. His work explores the limitations of risk management and of the so-called
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. He has questioned the motivations behind the growing demand to engage the public in dialogue and decision-making in relation to science. He has also sought to draw attention to the parallels between Islamist terrorism and contemporary Western nihilism, noting that many who engage in the former draw their roots from the latter and specifically stating that 'Islam, for them at least, was more a motif than a motive'. He publicly defended the need for BP to continue its exploration work in the
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at the time of the
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, and he supported the initial response of the Japanese authorities to the
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emergency. On the other hand, he has questioned the dynamic behind environmental campaigns against pulp and palm-oil producers in Indonesia, as well as the British government's interpretation of the implications of the
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. His work proposes that
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theory is too limited a framework through which to understand the British government's new Prevent Duty. This latter imposes new obligations on public bodies to tackle so-called
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, which he proposes is better understood as being driven by a process of disengagement. He has also addressed what he sees as the demise of strategic thinking and a concomitant crisis of diplomacy, most recently evidenced by the responses of senior British government ministers to the
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, former-spy poisoning episode in the UK.


Publications

His publication list includes articles in leading journals, and on the reading lists of internationally recognized universities – as well as a noted media profile from both writing press commentaries and appearing in broadcasts. He featured in the 2004
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award-winning documentary series produced by
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: The Rise of the Politics of Fear'. His appearance prompted
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newspaper journalist
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to describe him as: ''"one of the most perceptive commentators featured in the series"''.


Manifesto Club

Durodié was one of the founding members of the Manifesto Club, a network of individuals originally established to celebrate human achievement and challenge social, cultural and political pessimism, closely associated with the Spiked network of organisations emerging from the former Revolutionary Communist Party. He is a regular speaker at Spiked's annual Battle of Ideas festival in London, and is a regular contributor to Spiked's website. He gave the opening key-note address to the
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Europe Conference in 2016. On 15 November 2017, following in the steps of former US Secretary for Homeland Security
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and the UK Minister of State for Universities and Science
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, he became the 8th person and first alumnus to give the annual Vincent Briscoe Lecture to the Institute for Security Science and Technology at
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.Research must transcend ‘dystopian mindset’ of the past half-century
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Selected journal articles


Scientists advise, ministers decide? The role of scientific expertise in UK policymaking during the coronavirus pandemic
''Journal of Risk Research'', Vol.25, No.10, 2022
Handling Uncertainty and Ambiguity in the COVID-19 Pandemic
''Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy'', Vol.12, S1, 2020
Terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder: a historical review
''The Lancet Psychiatry'', Vol.6, No.1, 2019
Theory informed by practice. Application informed by purpose. Why to understand and manage risk, cultural context is the key
''Safety Science'', Vol.99, No.2, 2017
Remaking Bandung 60 Years On
''Global Change, Peace & Security'', Vol.28, No.3, 2016
Securitising Education to Prevent Terrorism or Losing Direction?
''British Journal of Educational Studies'', Vol.64, No.1, 2016
War on Terror or a Search for Meaning?
''US Joint Chiefs of Staff/Department of Defence Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment Occasional White Paper'', September 2013
The Changing Nature of Riots in the Contemporary Metropolis: From Ideology to Identity
''Journal of Risk Research'', Vol.15, No.4, 2012
H1N1 – The Social Costs of Élite Confusion
''Journal of Risk Research'', Vol.14, No.5, 2011
Reconciling Growing Energy Demand with Climate Change Management
''Global Change, Peace & Security'', Vol.23, No.2, 2011
H1N1 – The Social Costs of Cultural Confusion
''Global Health Governance'', Vol.4, No.2, 2011
Human Security – A Retrospective
''Global Change, Peace & Security'', Vol.22, No.3, 2010
Fear and Terror in a Post-Political Age
''Government & Opposition'', Vol.42, No.3, 2007
Suicide Bombers v Sexual Abusers: A Battle of Depravity or Western Fixations?
''Security Journal'', Vol.20, No.3, 2007
Risk and the Social Construction of 'Gulf War Syndrome'
''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B'', Vol.361, No.1468, 2006
Public Panic and Morale: World War Two Civilian Responses Re-Examined in the Light of the Current Anti-Terrorist Campaign
(with Edgar Jones, Robin Woolven and Simon Wessely) ''Journal of Risk Research'', Vol.9, No.1, 2006
The Limitations of Risk Management in Dealing with Disaster
''Politik'', Vol.8, No.1, 2005
Facing the Possibility of Bio-Terrorism
''Current Opinion in Biotechnology'', Vol.15, No.3, 2004
Civilian Morale during World War Two: Responses to Air-Raids Re-Examined
(with Edgar Jones, Robin Woolven and Simon Wessely), ''Social History of Medicine'', Vol.17, No.3, 2004
Limitations of Public Dialogue in Science and the Rise of New 'Experts'
''Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy'', Vol.6, No.4, 2003
The True Cost of Precautionary Chemicals Regulation
''Risk Analysis'', Vol.23, No.2, 2003
Resilience or Panic? The Public's Response to a Terrorist Attack
(with Simon Wessely) ''The Lancet'', Vol.360, No.9349, 2002


References


External links

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Inaugural Professorial Lecture - VideoInaugural Professorial Lecture - AudioUniversity of Bath - Brexit Debate
] * ttp://www.manifestoclub.com/ Manifesto Club websitebr>The 2017 Vincent Briscoe Security Science Lecture - VideoThe 2017 Vincent Briscoe Security Science Lecture - Transcript and Slides
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