Research and Development (R&D), Social Change, Narrative and Story Making, Anticipatory Experimentation, Mutant Futures

ActionForesight is the independent and creative arm of my work. Privately contracted work, as well exploratory ideas and initiatives flow through here.

The Journal of Futures Studies is a globally-oriented, trans-disciplinary referred journal. Its mission is to develop high-quality, futures-oriented research and thinking based on the evolving knowledge base of Futures Studies. Articles accepted for publication are expected to show an in-depth understanding of the field's dimensions, content, research perspectives and methods.

I am part of a team of researchers who are studying the Liquid Democracy and Liquid Feedback experiments in Germany and elsewhere. We aim to come to a deeper practical and theoretical understanding of the relationship between technology, politics and social transformation, as well as investigate the dynamics between political culture and digital culture.

Services 2020 hosts the core futures program of the CRC. The overall objective of the program is to inform the CRC, its participants and the Australian service sector about significant drivers of change in the next 10 years and ways to cope with those changes. The project started from scratch at the beginning of the CRC and has expanded to include participation from several industry and government organisations and academic participants from Swinburne and QUT. The program currently focuses on accessible foresight for Australian SMEs using open methods and concentrates on four areas: - Investigation of open foresight methods. There are several attempts being made around the world to use social media, crowd sourcing or other network forms in foresight practice. We are leveraging this work to provide best practice insights that can be used in the set-up of our Open Futures Library and highlight gaps in the foresight service range. - Implement an open sources futures library. An open library of ‘future images’ (e.g. scenarios) and futures scanning tools has been developed by our research team. This provides open access to futures materials, aids the foresight community and allows the development of new foresight services based on this crowd-sourced library. - Development and implementation of open foresight methods for organisations. Based on the research and evolution of the library the team is developing new methods of foresight delivery for CRC participants which are quicker and lower cost than traditional, proprietary methods.

Researching and teaching foresight methods and analysis for public policy.

2009 - 2010 Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in Strategic Foresight and Social Enterprise. 2008 - 2010 Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, National Centre for Sustainability, Graduate Certificate in Sustainability. 2008 - 2009 Lecturer at Victoria University of Technology, Social Research for International Community Development, Bachelors degree students. 2005 Instructor for Community Development Social Research, an experiential learning class on approaches to research at Swinburne University of Technology, TAFE division. 2004 - 2005 Instructor of ‘Economy and Society’, introductory class on political-economy and globalisation at Swinburne TAFE Prahran, and NMIT in Melbourne. Part of the liberal arts and vocational pathways programs. 2002 - 2005 Researcher for the Australian Foresight Institute. Duties include database development, scanning and survey research, report writing, interviewing, publications liaising and bibliographic compilation. 2002 - 2004 Abstractor, Bibliographic Services Ltd. This bibliographic research was undertaken to develop CD-ROM databases of magazine abstracts. 2000 May – December Copy Editor, Journal of Futures Studies. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, Tasks undertaken included: copy editing, article abstracting, liaising with authors, and conducting analysis of the publication process.

Networker, facilitator, curator