 LAURIE
TAYLOR
 Laurie
Taylor is
Visiting Professor
in the Department
of Politics
and Sociology
at Birbeck
College. He
was Professor
of Sociology
at York University
1984 - 1993.
He holds honorary
degrees from
the University
of Central
England and
the University
of Nottingham.
His career
before university
included five
years industrial
and sales
experience
with a major
rayon producing
firm, four
years as a
librarian
for Liverpool
City Council,
a period as
an actor with
Joan Littlewood's
famous 'Theatre
Workshop'
and five years
teaching experience
in a London
comprehensive
school.
His public
lectures are
primarily
concerned
with leadership,
motivation,
risk-taking,
social skills,
teamwork,
human relations,
new technology
and all aspects
of communications
and in the
last three
years he has
achieved over
150 major
national and
international
companies
on such topics.
Laurie Taylor
is the author
and co-author
of fourteen
books on social
psychology,
motivation,
attitudes
to change
and the nature
of identity
in the modern
world.
For thirteen
years Laurie
Taylor was
a leading
contributor
to Radio 4's
weekly conversation
programme
- Stop The
Week. From
1986-1993
he wrote and
presented
the weekly
programme
devoted to
news and reviews
of radio -
The Radio
Programme
(nominated
in 1990 for
a Sony award).
His series,
Speaking As
An Expert
in which he
appeared as
a management
consultant,
public relations
executive,
sports scientist,
computer systems
analyst, and
restaurant
critic, was
transmitted
on Radio 4
in 1995.
In January
1995 he also
presented
five programmes
for Radio
4 entitled
Now You're
Talking in
which he examined
the following
types of communications:
public speaking,
interview
techniques,
relationship
talk, and
talking on
radio and
television.
In addition
he has written
and presented
over fifty
feature programmes
for BBC Radio
on everything
from public
speaking to
modern romance.
He is also
a regular
contributor
to Radio Wales
and Radio
Scotland.
Laurie Taylor's
appearance
on television
include Did
You See, The
South Bank
Show, The
Late Show,
Everyman,
The Media
Show, Don't
Quote Me,
Newsnight,
Right To Reply
and Without
Walls. He
has made full
length television
features for
BBC1, BBC2
and Channel
4 on the American
student revolution,
the fear of
crime, drinking
behaviour
and London
University.
In the last
three years,
Laurie Taylor
has written
for: The Sunday
Telegraph,
Daily Mail,
Evening Standard,
Times Literary
Supplement,
Yorkshire
Post, Sunday
Times, Sunday
Mirror, The
Guardian and
The Independent.
He writes
a weekly column
on radio for
The Times,
a weekly humorous
column for
the Times
Higher Education
Supplement
(which
has been appearing
now for fourteen
years)
and he contributes
a fortnightly
column to
the New Statesman
and Society.
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