John Tulloch (lecturer)
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John Tulloch | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 83–84) Pondicherry, British India |
| Occupations | Lecturer, academic |
| Known for | 7 July 2005 London bombings survivor |
John Tulloch (born 1942) is a British-Australian educator and university lecturer who is best known as a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. He became a symbol of the attacks when a photograph with his injuries was published. Tulloch faced deportation from the United Kingdom due to a dispute over his citizenship which was resolved in November 2012.
Tulloch was born in Pondicherry, India to British parents with ancestry tracing back to the 13th century. His father served for Britain in the Ghurka Rifles and fought in Burma.[1] His grandfather was a forester and his great-grandfather served in the Indian Civil Service. His brother was also born in India. The family moved back to Britain when Tulloch was aged three years old.[2]
Tulloch was educated in Bournemouth and took courses at Cambridge University and Sussex University.[3]
Academic career
Tulloch had a research programme which led to a book on the long-running Australian television series A Country Practice, and spent six months working for the production team on Doctor Who. The latter project resulted in the seminal academic book Dr Who: The Unfolding Text (1983) which he co-authored with Manuel Alvarado.[4]
He won a research grant in 2003 to work on risk, reconstruction and media in Kosovo at the time of the start of the Iraq War. While writing Risk in Everyday Life he became concerned for people dealing professionally with risk, and their insecurity when communicating with the media. This led to him changing the focus of his research towards new-wars theory in 2004. Tulloch signalled this new direction publicly when he changed the topics of his keynote address at conferences held in Melbourne (2004) and at the University of Kent in January 2005.[4]
