Alan Rayner

Alan Rayner (born Nairobi, Kenya, 1950) is a British biologist and educator.

Career

Alan Rayner obtained B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Natural Sciences at King's College, Cambridge, and was a reader in biology at the University of Bath from 1985 to 2011. Rayner has published over 160 academic papers, articles and book chapters seven academic texts in the field of biology, and was president of the British Mycological Society in 1998. He has been a BP Venture Research Fellow and a Visiting Miller Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2010.

In 2001, Rayner hosted "The Language of Water", an event combining scientific and artistic material that led to the BBC Radio 4 series Water Story. In 2006 and 2007, he hosted "Unhooked Thinking" part I and II, which examined various aspects of addiction.

Since 2001, Rayner has been actively involved in developing his concept of "natural inclusionality", a philosophical approach to sustainability.[1][2]

gollark: I was mostly complaining about their specific reasoning there (it is not very sensible, inasmuch as basically no possible bad event is *guaranteed* but ignoring the possibility of them is quite bad for you), but I don't agree with the rest of what they said either, so thing.
gollark: Bold of you to assume I know things.
gollark: > it's okay to not be scared of what MIGHT happenThis is such a moronically stupid attitude toward risk. Among other things.
gollark: ("you" in general)
gollark: I think that you generally have basically no chance of actually convincing anyone wrt. politics, and will probably just alienate them.

References
  1. Rayner, A. (8 February 2011). "Space Cannot Be Cut: Why Self-Identity Naturally Includes Neighbourhood" (PDF). Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 45 (2): 161–184. doi:10.1007/s12124-011-9154-y. PMID 21302152.
  2. Rayner, Alan. "A Summary of Natural Inclusionality". BestThinking.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
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