Associate Fellow, International Security Programme

Expertise

• Risk
• Terrorism
• Politics of Fear
• Homeland Security
• Psychological Impacts

Projects

• Research - A Sociology of Rumours
• Book - Communicating the War on Terror
• Teaching - Establishing an MSc in Risk and Security

Recent Publications

• Fear and Terror in a Post-Political Age, Government and Opposition, Vol.42, No.3, July 2007, pp.427-450
• Suicide Bombers v Sexual Abusers: A Battle of Depravity or Western Fixations?, Security Journal, Vol.20, No.3, July 2007, pp.146-157
• Home-Grown Nihilism: The Clash Within Civilisations in 'Britain and Security', Cornish, P. ed., The Smith Institute, 2007, pp.117-128
• Understanding the Broader Context, in 'Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium', Rappert, B. ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.193-211
• What Can the Science and Technology Community Contribute?, in 'Science and Technology Policies for the Anti-Terrorism Era', James, A. ed., IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2006, pp.38-50
• Cultural Precursors and Psychological Consequences of Contemporary Western Responses to Acts of Terror, in 'The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts', Fitzduff, M. and Stout C.E. eds., Praeger Press, Westport, 2006, pp.307-326
• Risk and the Social Construction of 'Gulf War Syndrome', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol.361, No.1468, April 2006, pp.689-695
• Public Panic and Morale: World War Two Civilian Responses Re-Examined in the Light of the Current Anti-Terrorist Campaign, Journal of Risk Research, with Edgar Jones, Robin Woolven and Simon Wessely, Vol.9, No.1, January 2006, pp.57-73
• The Limitations of Risk Management in Dealing with Disaster: Building Social Resilience, Politik, Vol.8, No.1, March 2005, pp.14-21
• Facing the Possibility of Bio-Terrorism, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Vol.15, No.3, June 2004, pp.264-268
  

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