[dredmorbius]

Updating my earlier response -- these aren't just "ties", the Institute was founded, and is headed, by a noted White Nationalist.

The source I'd picked up the item from is, it seems, quite the racist himself. I should have seen it earlier given the topics he covered and how he was doing so in his blog.

The area of research interests me, but I'm exceptionally dubious about this paper.

Oh, and Woodley appears to be the son of Michael Woodley, aerial effects coordinator for several James Bond films. The elder acquired the estate in 1995. So this doesn't appear to be old money, per se.