Richard Slaughter
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Dr Richard Slaughter | |
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| 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 is a scholar and writer in the field of futures studies, applied foresight and social innovation. He is the co-director of Foresight International, and has guest edited the journals Futures[1] and Foresight.[2] His work has centred on developing the theory and practice of futures in education; the transition from empirical to critical futures work; bringing Integral theory into futures, and working with others to stimulate effective responses to what he regards as a "global emergency" created, in part, by the confluence of peak oil and global warming.[citation needed]
In 2009 the special issue of Futures on Integral Futures that was edited by Slaughter was voted one of the "most important futures works of 2008" by the Association of Professional Futurists.[1]
Founded in 1999 at the Swinburne University of Technology, the Australian Foresight Institute was designed as a specialized research and post-graduate teaching unit. A research program on Creating and Sustaining Social Foresight was funded and supported by the Pratt Foundation and produced a series of monographs.[3]
The institute was disestablished in 2005, with the teaching program subsumed into Swinburne University of Technology's Faculty of Business and Enterprise, with the new name of The Strategic Foresight Program.
Life and Work
Richard Slaughter was born and raised in an unassuming household in Southsea, Portsmouth, by his mother Margaret, who was a homemaker and devout Christian, and his father Norman, a hard-working blue-collar man. Slaughter's upbringing was characterised the moral teachings of his mother's church and with his parents' efforts to broaden their son's horizons by providing him with a variety of experiences. Both parents had lived through the Second World War, and felt it necessary for their child to understand the nature of human conflict, through literature and film. Partly for this reason Slaughter developed a deep love of reading at an early age.
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
References
- ^ a b "Futures and integral futures". Foresight. April 15, 1975. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ "Guest editorial from: foresight, Volume 11, Issue 5". Foresight. Emerald. April 15, 1975. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ "Ten Foresight Monographs". richardslaughter.com.au. August 25, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
External links
- Foresight International
- Jose Ramos, From Critique to Cultural Recovery AFI, 2003.