Tony Gilland

Tony stood down as the director of the Academy of Ideas Debating Matters competition earlier this year to pursue a career in education. He is currently training to teach secondary school Maths in Kent.

Tony led DM for 10 years, overseeing its growth into a UK competition for nearly 300 schools and its expansion to India through a partnership with the British Council. As the Academy of Ideas’ Science and Society Director Tony organised a number of events and publications on the intersection between science and society at times of public controversy, especially in relation to genetics, public health, energy and climate change.

He holds a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford.

Related Sessions
Monday 24 October 2011, 6.30pm John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH
Saturday 29 October 2011, 10.30am Lecture Theatre 2
Sunday 30 October 2011, 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Thursday 17 November 2011, 6.00pm British Council, 17 Kasturba Ghandi Marg, New Delhi, 110 001, India

Publications

What Is Science Education For? (ed.) (Academy of Ideas, 2006)
‘Trade War or Culture War? The GM Debate in Britain and the European Union’, in Let The Eat Precaution, (AEI, 2006)
Science: Can We Trust the Experts? (ed.) (Hodder Arnold, 2002)
Animal Experimentation: Good or Bad? (ed.) (Hodder Arnold, 2002)
Nature’s Revenge: Hurricanes, Floods and Climate Change (ed.) (Hodder Arnold, 2002)
‘Precaution, GM Crops and Farmland Birds’, in Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)

Barriers to Science

"A superb brainstorming of gritty brinkmanship. Totally mind-stretching and wonderful."
Humphrey Hawksley, BBC World Affairs correspondent

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