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Awards and miscellaneous

Duncan is an award-winning journalist and has been recognised

Awards

1989: Best Business Feature, Magazine Publishing Awards
1987: What The Papers Say, Investigative Journalist of the Year
1987: Freedom of Information Campaign: Media Award
1983: Specialist Writer of the Year, Periodical Publishers’ Association, for reports on nuclear weapons and the Prime spy case.
1980: Cobden Trust Award, for series of New Statesman articles on civil liberties, including an exposé on Britain's secret telephone tapping centre.

Miscellaneous

Founder member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Nominated as Rector of Aberdeen University, 1981
Consultant on telecommunications, Technology Faculty, Open University, 1976–82
Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee Study Group on Defence, 1980–1983
Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee Study Group on Security Services, 1979–83
Chairman and director, Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd (publishers of New Statesman) 1990-94
Senior Research Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C., 1999–2000
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

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