Bill Durodié is Professor and Chair of International Relations at the University of Bath. He previously held posts in British Columbia and in Singapore, as well as at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Bill was educated at Imperial College, the London School of Economics and New College Oxford. He received his PhD through the Centre for decision analysis and risk management of Middlesex University. His main research interest is to examine the causes and consequences of contemporary perceptions of risk, as well as how these are framed and communicated across a range of issues relating to security, science and society.