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

Friday, 11.00am Genomics and Society conference
The battle over ethics and regulation

Sunday, 11.00am Lecture Theatre 1
The science and politics of climate change

Sunday, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
My brain made me do it

Sunday, 4.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
What are the barriers to science in the 21st century?

 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)

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"The Battle of Ideas sounds like it ought to be feisty - and it is."
Alyson Rudd, The Times