Education
Bachelor (Honours), History and English, Master of Arts Psychology, Dip Editor, and Doctor of Philosophy - research thesis on Orthography and Reading, Spelling and Society.
Bachelor (Honours), History and English, Master of Arts Psychology, Dip Editor, and Doctor of Philosophy - research thesis on Orthography and Reading, Spelling and Society.
Research fellow (Psychology) at Aberdeen University. Fellow of the Galton Institute (United Kingdom). Member, British Psychological Society.
Vice-President, Simplified Spelling Society (United Kingdom).
Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, and of Australian educational and social reforming organizations. Research to make literacy easier by removing the barriers.
This includes the concept of online access to understanding and self-help, and improving English spelling by maximising its advantages as well as reducing its disadvantages to meet needs and abilities of users and learners. This cognitive psychological research approach goes beyond the conventional assumptions of a purely phonetic solution to spelling reform as defined in Wikipedia.
Studies of children's imagination and applied imagination.
Social innovations. Alternatives for social problems. More natural childcare.
Preventing waste of intelligence.
The cognitive effects of very loud music, now pervasive and global. Non-destructive pleasures. Economic and political alternatives for sustainability without requiring continual growth.
Humane solutions to population growth.
Cutting production of waste to reduce carbon emissions. The psychology of peace.
Fellow of the Galton Institute (United Kingdom). Member, British Psychological Society. Vice-President, Simplified Spelling Society (United Kingdom).
Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, and of Australian educational and social reforming organizations.
Founder, the non-profit Australian Centre for Social Innovations, 1991. Member, the British Institute for Social Inventions, 1984.