Richard A Slaughter is Director of Foresight
International, Brisbane. During 1999 to 2004 he was Foundation
Professor of Foresight at the Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne
University (Melbourne) and a consulting futurist who has worked
with a wide range of organisations in many countries and at all
educational levels. He completed a PhD in futures studies at the
University of Lancaster in 1982. He has since built an international
reputation through futures scholarship, educational innovation,
strategic and social foresight and the identification of a knowledge
base for futures studies. He is a fellow of the World
Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and a professional member of the World
Future Society. During 2001 - 2005 he was elected President of the
WFSF.
He is a prolific writer and holds several editorial positions.
These include: consulting editor to Futures (Oxford, UK), board
member of the Journal
of Futures Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan), board
member of On the Horizon and Foresight (Camford, Cambridge, UK)
and series editor of The
Knowledge Base of Futures Studies (FI, Brisbane). He
is co-author of Education
for the 21st Century (Routledge, 1993), author of The
Foresight Principle - Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century
(Praeger 1995) editor of New
Thinking for a New Millennium (Routledge 1996) and co-editor
of the World
Yearbook of Education 1998: Futures Education (Kogan
Page, London 1998). He has also published a series of futures resource
books. He has published an edited volume of essays: Futures
for the Third Millennium - Enabling the Forward View
(Prospect, Sydney, 1999) and a collection of papers by various authors
from The ABN Report entitled: Gone
Today, Here Tomorrow: Millennium Previews (Prospect,
Sydney, 2000). Several of these publications have been revised and
re-issued on a series of CD-ROMs, beginning with the Knowledge
Base of Futures Studies vols 1-4, Millennium Edition
(Foresight International 2001). His latest book is Futures Beyond
Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight (Routledge, London, 2004). Click
to read the introduction
and foreword
to the book.
His research interests include: the use of futures concepts and
methods in education, business and government; the development of
critical futures methodologies; the knowledge base of futures studies
and the social implementation of foresight. With the support of
the Pratt Foundation he is currently developing a national foresight
strategy for Australia. His main aim is to facilitate the emergence
of a society and culture that is not merely driven by the past but
also responsive to the emerging near-future context. The latter,
he believes, is far more challenging than is commonly realised.
However, there are many innovative paths out of the trap that humanity
has collectively created for itself.
His most recent projects include the Knowledge Base of Futures
Studies: Professional Edition and Towards a Wise Culture: Four 'Classic'
Futures Texts, both available from Foresight International on CD-ROM.
Contact Information
Dr. Slaughter can be contacted at:
PO Box 793, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia
Web site: http://www.foresightinternational.com.au
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Dr.
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