Bill Durodié
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Dr Bill Durodié is an Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme (ISP) for the prestigious international affairs think-tank, Chatham House, in London. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) at the University of Kent (UK), and an Advisor to the Center for World Health Promotion of Arizona State University (US). He is currently based in Singapore where he is a permanent resident (PR).
Previously he was Senior Fellow in the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he coordinated the Health and Human Security Programme. Before that he coordinated the Homeland Defence Programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) there. He retains a position as an Adjunct Senior Fellow with RSIS.
During his time at NTU he has organised the 3rd Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO) around the theme of risk, two international conferences that critically examined social responses to pandemics and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks in Asia, and major workshops examining food security and defence, and the import and impact of the language of psychotherapy on public policy and societal resilience. He continues to teach a course on 'The Politics of Risk' to graduate students within the RSIS Masters programme there and is supervising a PhD student examining 'The Politics of Palm Oil'.
His main research interest is in understanding the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of risk, as well as how these are framed and communicated. He is also interested in examining the erosion of expertise, the demoralisation of élites, the limitations of risk management and the precautionary principle, and the growing demand to engage the public in dialogue and decision-making in relation to science.
He is currently exploring the responses and meanings attributed to the earthquake, tsunami and associated nuclear emergency in Japan, as well as the recent riots in the UK. He is invited to participate in many projects internationally and conducts a large number of speaking engagements each year. Recent commitments have seen him traveling to Australia, China, India, Indonesia, France, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
Prior to coming to Singapore, Dr Durodié was Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at Cranfield University, where he was academic leader for the Resilience Centre in the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis (DMSA), part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. In his time there he established a new Masters programme in Resilience, covering a wide range of conflict management issues.
Previously he was Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, part of the 5* Research Assessment Exercise rated War Studies Group at King’s College London. There he developed and coordinated the ‘Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks’ programme, a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) within their ‘New Security Challenges’ framework.
Dr Durodié was educated at the Royal College of Science, part of Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, and New College Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. He was awarded his PhD through the Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management in the School of Health and Social Sciences at Middlesex University (UK).
He has an extensive publication list – including articles in top-rated journals and on the reading lists of some of the world’s leading universities – and a significant media profile from both writing press commentaries and appearing in broadcasts. He featured in the 2004 BBC British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award-winning documentary series produced by Adam Curtis; ‘The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear’.
A transcript of his September 2006 interview with the Australian broadcaster Robyn Williams for 'In Conversation' on ABC Radio National is available from; http://www.abc.net.au/rn/inconversation/stories/2006/1738904.htm
A video podcast of his lecture 'Resilience in the Face of Terrorism' given on 9 March 2007 at the University of Warwick Business School is available from; http://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/features/2007/03/13/Resilience/in/the
Durodié was one of the founding members of the Manifesto Club (http://www.manifestoclub.com), a network of individuals celebrating human achievement and challenging social, cultural and political pessimism.
