Goldsmiths - University of London

Ed Randall BA MSC (Econ) FHEA

Ed Randall studied Sociology and Social Administration at Durham University before going on to the London School of Economics to complete a Masters degree in Social Work and Social Administration. He trained and qualified as a nurse at St. Thomas' Hospital, London before becoming a university teacher. Apart from teaching and researching politics and social policy he has served as an elected member of a London Borough Council (from 1982 to 1998) and has extensive knowledge of local government policy-making and the administration of social welfare services (including housing, personal social services and education). He is currently the Deputy Head of Politics and Senior Tutor for the Politics Department at Goldsmiths University of London.

Teaching

Ed Randall is responsible for convening and teaching several undergraduate courses: Politics and Welfare, Risk and Politics, and contributes to Themes and Issues in British Politics as well as sharing the responsibility for teaching the introductory unit Political Economy and Public Policy. He also convenes and teaches a Master’s course entitled Politics and Welfare (in Britain and Europe) .

Areas of supervision

Ed Randall supervises graduate work in health policy; European Union regulatory governance and health related policy; liberal democratic thought and Liberal Democratic politics in contemporary Britain; risk, food and politics; and, local governance and social welfare services.

Research interests

Ed Randall’s research interests include health policy (particularly the health related policies of the European Union), local government finance and policy-making, liberal political thought, and the politics of risk. His published work deals with all these areas. His current research is focussed on the politics of risk in relation to food safety; he is also pursuing a long-standing interest in the development of electronic resources that complement conventional pedagogy in the teaching of politics and social policy.

Selected publications

• author, 'Tackling Vince', Liberator, November (2009), Issue 336, pp. 12-13.
• author, ‘Take care with the economic medicine you prescribe’ LD Voice 7 October 2009 [See: www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-take-care-with-the-economic-medicine-you-prescribe-16433.html].
• author, ‘Brownian Banks: Where was ‘prudence with a purpose’ when the banks went on a spree?’, Liberator, April (2009), Issue 332, pp. 10.
• author, Food, Risk and Politics: Scare, Scandal and Crisis - Insights into the Risk Politics of Food Safety (Manchester: Manchester University Press, May 2009).
• author, NYT Editors' Selection - Randall responds to Krugman's Behind the Curve - with: 'Pass the ammunition, keep the arguments flowing and test the willingness to make policy evidence based to breaking point' - New York Times and NYT on line 9th March 2009. [See: http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/03/09/opinion/09krugman.html?permid=112#comment112 and http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/opinion/09krugman.html] # Mon Mar 09 13:45:12 2009
• author, NYT Editor's Selection: Randall responds to Krugman's Stuck in the Muddle – a truly disappointing piece – New York Times and NYT on-line 23rd January 2009.
  [See: http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/01/23/opinion/23krugman.html?permid=106#comment106 and www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/opinion/23krugman.html]
• author, ‘When the Markets Fail - spontaneous disorder is a stimulus to rediscover and restore radicalism to liberalism’, Liberator, December (2008), Issue 330, pp. 8-9.
• author, ‘Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition – review article’,Social Policy and Administration, 42(5) (2008), pp. 542-548.
• author, ‘The Refuge of Scoundrels: American democracy has been undermined in the name of the “war on terror” in a way that should alarm liberals everywhere’, Liberator, September (2007), Issue 321, pp. 20-21.
• author, ‘Liberal Environmentalism: A Liberalism that Matches the Age we’re in’ chapter in Reinventing the State:  Social Liberalism for the 21st Century edited by Duncan Brack, Richard S. Grayson and David Howarth (London: Methuen/Politicos, 2007), pp. 37-54.
• author, ‘[response to Roy Hattersley on] John Stuart Mill…[and] liberty’, Letters, The Guardian, Saturday 10th August (2007).
• author, ‘Saudi kickbacks are bad business’, Letters, The Independent, Wednesday 13th June (2007), p. 32.
• author, ‘Betraying the NHS – review article’, Social Policy & Administration, 41(3) (2007), pp. 313-317.
• author, ‘Yellow versus Orange – Never a Fair Fight: An Assessment of Two Contributions to Liberal Politics Separated by Three-quarters of a Century’, Political Quarterly, 78(1) (2007), pp. 40-49.
• joint editor (with Duncan Brack), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (London: Methuen/Politicos, 2007) and author of 14 DLT entries including: 'Introduction', 'Keynesianism', 'Liberal Democracy', 'Liberalism: Pre-Enlightenment and non-Western' and 'Social Justice'.
• author, ‘Not that soft or informal: a response to Eberlein and Grande’s account of regulatory governance in the EU with special reference to the European Food Safety Authority’, Journal of European Public Policy, 13(3) (2006), pp. 402-419.
• author, ‘USS enterprise should torpedo pension fears’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 9 (2006), No. 1,746.
• author, ‘Careless with Our Democracy: Group Think and Voting Reform’, The Political Quarterly, 76(3) (2005), pp. 402-413.
• author, ‘Friends in Need: America’s liberals and democrats need support as they try to turn back an onslaught of religious fundamentalism, unbridled capitalism and extreme conservatism’, Liberator, September (2004), Issue. 298, pp. 18-19.
• author, ‘It’s Not Okay in Latin’, Letters, The Guardian, Tuesday 20th July (2004), p. 21.
• author, ‘Heir to the New Liberals? An appreciation of a Liberal Philosopher (John Rawls)’, Journal of Liberal History, Autumn (2003), No. 40, pp. 4-13.
• author, ‘Bully and the Broadcaster’, Letters, The Guardian, Tuesday 8th July (2003), p. 22.
• author, A Union for Health: strengthening the European Union's Role in Health (London: Centre for Reform, 2002).
• co-author (with Tony Butcher) ‘The BSE Crisis: Lessons for Public Administration and the Policy Process’, Teaching Public Administration, 21(2) (2001), pp. 2-13.
• author, ‘EU health policy - the time for playing catch-up is over - a response to Elias Mossailos and Martin McKee's “Is a European healthcare policy emerging?”’ BMJ Rapid Response, July 2001.
• author, The Plan for a European Food Authority and the Politics of Risk in the Union (London: policylibrary.com/Brunel, 2001)
• author, Response to a European Commission proposal for a European Health Forum [see http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2000/en_500PC0285.pdf - link opens a new browser window] (February, 2001).
• author, ‘European Union Health Policy With and Without Design: Serendipity, Tragedy and the Future of EU Health Policy’, Policy Studies, 21(2) (2000), pp. 133-164.
• author, ‘European Citizens and Union Health Policies: pushing back the frontiers – the politics of health and supranational regulation in the European Union’, Social Policy Association Annual Conference Paper (July, 2000).
• author, The European Union and Health Policy (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000).