Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is a general practitioner. He has written on a wide range of medical and political subjects, including epidemics, addictions and health scares for both medical publications and the mainstream media. He is the author of The Tyranny of Heath (2002). Michael’s book MMR and Autism: what parents need to know (2004) put forward a comprehensive appraisal of vaccine-autism theories. This was followed in 2009 […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Ellie Lee
Ellie Lee is Reader of Social Policy at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the evolution of family and health policy. She also the Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies as a research network concerned with the way “parenting” has been constructed as a social problem in Britain and in many other countries and she frequently discusses her research in the […]
Yunas Samad
Yunas Samad is Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Bradford, and author of the report ‘Muslims and Community Cohesion in Bradford’ (Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, 2010), and co-edited the books Social cohesion and social change in Europe (Routledge, 2015), and Culture, Identity and Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain (Research in Ethnic Relations) (Avebury, 1996). […]
Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy and Director of Research, University of Huddersfield. Prior to joining the University, he worked as a regional manager for a national voluntary youth work organisation and as a regional youth policy and campaigns officer for the government’s Commission for Racial Equality. Paul’s research focuses mainly on state policies around young people and multiculturalism, racism, community cohesion, and […]
Adrian Hart
Adrian Hart is a former teacher turned writer, researcher and filmmaker. He’s a veteran of anti-racism campaigns in the late 1980s, and his more recent involvement with anti-racist projects in schools led to his controversial report The Myth of Racist Kids – anti-racist policy and the regulation of school life (The Manifesto Club, 2009). The report was soon followed by Leave Those Kids Alone – how official […]
Rachel Holmes
Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry (2007), The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman (2008), and Eleanor Marx: A Life (2015). She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanensi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire. […]
Ian Cram
Ian Cram is Professor of Comparative Law, University of Leeds. His main research interests are in the fields of public law and comparative constitutional Law, with special reference to freedom of expression.He is author of Terror and the War on Dissent – Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda (Springer, 2009). Ian also acted as General Editor for the new edition of Borrie & […]
Kate Wicker
Kate Wicker is a PHD researcher in Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds. Her research interests lie in the role of experts and evidence in public policymaking, particularly in contexts where knowledge is uncertain and contested. Kate’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded PhD research traces and analyses how expertise is expressed, conferred and denied among ‘radicalisation’ experts in the United Kingdom. She is a member of […]
Bill Durodié
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 […]
Geoff Dibb
Geoff Dibb is a retired civil engineer and the author of Oscar Wilde – a Vagabond with a Mission: The Story of Oscar Wilde’s Lecture Tours of Britain and Ireland (The Oscar Wilde Society, 2013). […]