Bill Durodié

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Durodie at the Battle of Ideas speaking on: What are the barriers to science in the 21st century ? Institute of Ideas London, UK Oct 28th, 2007

Bill Durodié is a member of the advisory board of the Scientific Alliance and is part of the LM network, having contributed to Living Marxism, Audacity, the Institute of Ideas and Spiked and being a founder member of the Manifesto Club. He is described on the Spiked website as an "Advisor to the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office Strategy Unit study 'The Costs and Benefits of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops.'" This study formed the economic strand that complemented the UK government's Public Debate on GM crops which culminated in 2003.

Durodie's 1999 pamphlet Poisonous Dummies, for the Tobacco industry funded European Science and Environment Forum

Durodié is the Senior Fellow coordinating the Health and Human Security research programme in the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he teaches a course on 'The Politics of Risk' as part of the Masters programme. For three years prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at the Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

He was previously Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, within the War Studies Group of King's College London.

Durodié was educated at Imperial College London where he gained a BSc in Physics, the London School of Economics, where he got an MSc in Economics which takes two years where students 'first degree did not specialise in economics.' and New College Oxford. In 2007 he was reportedly 'awarded a PhD by Public Works from Middlesex University'.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA), an Associate Fellow of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), an Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS), a Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and an Advisory Forum Member of the Scientific Alliance.

Official biography

From the Battle of Ideas biography in 2007::

Bill Durodié is Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at Cranfield University. He was previously Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, within the 5* Research Assessment Exercise rated War Studies Group of King's College London.
His main research interest is into the causes and consequences of our contemporary consciousness of risk. He is also interested in examining the erosion of expertise, the demoralisation of élites, the limitations of risk management, and the growing demand to engage the public in dialogue and decision-making in relation to science.
Bill was educated at Imperial College, the London School of Economics, and New College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA), an Associate Fellow of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), an Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS), a Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and an Advisory Forum Member of the Scientific Alliance.
His work has appeared and been commented on in a wide range of publications, and he is regularly requested to provide expert commentary for television and radio broadcasts. Bill featured in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series produced by Adam Curtis, The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

Career

• Circa 1996 European Projects Officer, Kingsway College, Longford Street, London NW1 3HB.
• 1996-2000 Durodie wrote three articles for Living Marxism/LM between issue 86, January 1996 and LM 126, December/January 1999/2000.
• Circa 1998, 'Director' of Objective Europe which was described in Living Marxism as an 'independent research group' in October 1998.
• Circa 1999 unspecified post at the London School of Economics
• Circa 1999, 'Research Fellow', European Science and Environment Forum

Communicating the war on terror

Durodie is a Senior Research Fellow & Project Co-ordinator for the Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks Programme, at the Centre for Defence Studies, which is part of the International Policy Institute at King's College London. He also says he has, 'Worked as a European advisor within both the private and public sectors, including a secondment to the Government Office for London'.

On behalf of King's College London, Durodie organised the conference, "Communicating the War on Terror", which took place at the Royal Institution in June 2003. Among those chairing sessions at the two-day event were Fiona Fox (director of the Science Media Centre) and Bruno Waterfield.

Like Durodie, Fiona Fox and Bruno Waterfield have been contributors to the magazine LM, formerly Living Marxism . Among the conference speakers were Frank Furedi, Phil Hammond, Michael Fitzpatrick and Mick Hume, all of whom connect to LM and the Revolutionary Communist Party out of which it emerged. Another LM contributor, Ellen Raphael, the Assistant Director of Sense About Science, assisted Durodié with organising the event.

The fact that all these people had long term connections to each other and have been part of the same extreme political network does not appear to have been disclosed to those attending the conference. It can hardly be considered irrelevant given that the Revolutionary Communist Party, contributors to LM/Living Marxism , and the RCP's front group, the Irish Freedom Movement, which Fiona Fox at one time headed, all supported the 'armed struggle' in Northern Ireland, and refused to condemn any of the acts of terror of the IRA. They also, after the IRA announced their ceasefire, opposed the peace process and LM provided a platform for dissident republican views in articles written by Fox (under her alias Fiona Foster).

Durodie himself frequently cites the RCP's chief ideologist, Frank Furedi, in his publications, and has contributed to all the network's main platforms: LM, Spiked and the Institute of Ideas.

Many of Durodie's papers have been published by far-right think tanks, eg the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Poisonous Propaganda) and the European Science and Environment Forum (Poisonous Dummies), or by Living Marxism network connected groups, eg the Institute of Ideas (Can we trust the experts?) and Audacity.org (Society loses when the polluter is made to pay).

Publications, Affiliations, Resources, Notes

Publications

• Bill Durodie, Poisonous Propaganda: Global Echoes of an Anti-Vinyl Agenda (Washington, D.C.: Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 2000).
• Bill Durodie Poisonous Dummies: European Risk Regulation after BSE, The European Science and Environment Forum, 1999.

Publications from the Social Science Citation Index

• Durodie, B. (2000). "Calculating the cost of caution." Chemistry & Industry(5): 170-170.
• Durodie, B. (2002). "The precautionary principle in the 20th century: Late lessons from early warnings." Risk Analysis 22(6): 1208-1209.
• Durodie, B. (2003). "Letter to the editor regarding chemical white paper special issue." Risk Analysis 23(3): 427-428.
• Durodie, B. (2003). "The true cost of precautionary chemicals regulation." Risk Analysis 23(2): 389-398.
• Durodie, B. (2004). "Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution." Risk Analysis 24(4): 1066-1068.
• Durodie, B. (2004). "Facing the possibility of bioterrorism." Current Opinion in Biotechnology 15(3): 264-268.
• Durodie, B. (2004). "The timid corporation - Why business is terrified of taking risk." Risk Analysis 24(1): 301-304.
• Durodie, B. (2005). "Imperial hubris: Why the west is losing the war on terror." Journal of Strategic Studies 28(5): 897-900.
• Durodie, B. (2006). "Contending cultures of counterterrorism." International Affairs 82(1): 195-196.
• Durodie, B. (2006). "Risk and the social construction of 'Gulf War Syndrome'." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 361(1468): 689-695.
• Durodie, B. (2007). "Containment: Rebuilding a strategy against global terror." International Affairs 83: 827-828.
• Durodie, B. (2007). "Fear and terror in a post-political age." Government and Opposition 42(3): 427-450.
• Durodie, B. (2008). "Worst-case scenarios." International Affairs 84(3): 567-568.
• Durodie, B. (2009). "Keeping a cool head." Tce(822-23): 22-23.
• Durodie, B. and S. Wessely (2002). "Resilience or panic? The public and terrorist attack." Lancet 360(9349): 1901-1902.
• Jones, E., R. Woolven, et al. (2004). "Civilian morale during the Second World War: Responses to air raids re-examined." Social History of Medicine 17(3): 463-479.
• Jones, E., R. Woolven, et al. (2006). "Public panic and morale: Second World War civilian responses reexamined in the light of the current anti-terrorist campaign." Journal of Risk Research 9(1): 57-73.
• Lescoeur, B., J. P. Bouttes, et al. (2003). "Riskworld - Part 3 - Comments." Journal of Risk Research 6(4-6): 587-+.

Affiliations

• Manifesto Club | Objective Europe circa 1998 | The Precautionary Principle: Is it Killing Innovation? in An Apology for Capitalism?, Kumaria, S. ed, Stockholm Network | It How Long Can an Emergency Last For? TechCentral Station, 23 May 2003 | Why has Europe become so risk-averse? In Breaking Down the Barriers, Disney, H. ed., Civitas, 2003 | January 2003 Private Commission for European Food Information Council, Brussels | Audacity, September 2002 | | Private Commission for European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates, Brussels, February 2001 | Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, July 2000 | European Science and Environment Forum working paper, June 1999

Resources

• Website of Bill Durodie
• Chatham House profile of Bill Durodie