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FurediProfessor Frank Furedi
Professor of Sociology
University of Kent in Canterbury
During the past decade, Frank’s research has been oriented towards the way that risk and uncertainty is managed by contemporary culture. He has published widely about the Culture of Fear and controversies surrounding issues such as health, parenting, children, food and new technology. His book Invitation To Terror; Expanding The Empire of The Unknown explores the way in which the threat of terrorism has become amplified through the ascendancy of possibilistic thinking. It develops the arguments contained in three previous books; Politics of Fear, The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001) He is also concerned with developments in intellectual life and education. His most recent book, Wasted: Why Education is not Working, (2009) attempts to account for the state of contemporary schooling. At present he is engaged in a study of the relationship between fear, uncertainty and the problem of authority. Frank regularly comments on radio and television. In the past year he has appeared on Newsnight (BBC2), Sky and BBC News, The Today Programme and a variety of other radio television shows and his articles appear across the globe.
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National FInal: National Final 2009/10
DEBATE: Secularism
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