Richard Slaughter

Dr Richard Slaughter
Born	Richard Slaughter Late 1940 London, London
Occupation	Professor/author
Nationality	England
Education	Lancaster University, PhD. futures studies,1982
Subject	Futures studies, journalism, Integral perspective, social innovation
Literary movement	Futures studies
Notable works	Director at Foresight International Foundation professor at Foresight International published 20 books on futures studies
Spouse	Jill
Website
http://authors-unlimited.org/author/richard-slaughter

Richard Slaughter (born late 1940s, England) is a co-director of Foresight International, a preeminent scholar in the field of Futures Studies and applied foresight, and a prolific author with over 20 books to his name specialising in Future Studies, Integral perspectives and social innovation. Slaughter has also guest edited a number of journals including:Futures,Foresight,Future research quarterly and World studies journals.He is widely known for his work in four areas:

• developing the theory and practice of futures in education;
• leading the transition from empirical to critical futures work;
• bringing Integral theory into futures; hence Integral Futures; and,
• working with others to stimulate effective responses to the ‘global emergency’ created, in part, by the confluence of peak oil and global warming.

Selected works

• Birds in Bermuda. Bermuda Bookstores Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda: ix + 158pp (1975) With photographs by the author.
• Recovering the Future. Grad. School of Environ. Science, Monash University, Melbourne: iv + 189 pp (1988) ISBN 0-86746-667-7
• Studying the Future, Bicentennial Futures Education Project. Commission For the Future, Melbourne: xiv + 82 pp (1989) ISBN 0-642-14281-5

External links

• Foresight International
• Jose Ramos, From Critique to Cultural Recovery AFI, 2003.