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Jennifer Gidley

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Jennifer Gidley
BornMelbourne, Australia
🏡 ResidenceMelbourne, Australia
🏳️ CitizenshipAustralian
🎓 Alma materUniversity of Melbourne, Australia
💼 Occupation
Known forEducational futures,
Evolution of consciousness,
Rudolf Steiner, Ken Wilber

Jennifer M. Gidley is an Australian psychologist, educator and futures researcher.[1]

Gidley is the elected President of the World Futures Studies Federation (2009–2013).[2] She is a futures studies researcher best known for her work in educational and youth futures,[3][4] evolution of consciousness (sometimes referred to as spiritual evolution) and global socio-cultural change.[5]

Gidley was lead researcher/author of the winning essay in the IAU/Palgrave International Essay Competition in Higher Education Policy Research.[6] The winning entry was entitled From Access to Success: An Integrated Approach to Quality Higher Education informed by Social Inclusion Theory and Practice and was published in the first 2010 issue of the IAU/Palgrave Journal. She also serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed academic journals.

Work[edit]

Gidley is a research fellow in the Global Cities Research Institute, RMIT University[7] Melbourne, Australia.

Books and monographs[edit]

  • Futures in Education: Principles, Practices and Potential, (Monograph No 5, The Strategic Foresight Monograph Series, 2004) (with Debra Bateman, Deakin University and Caroline Smith, ACU)
  • La Universidad en Transformación: Perspectivas Globales sobre los Futuros de la Universidad. Comp. de S. (Barcelona, España: Pomares, 2003) (Spanish Translation) (with Sohail Inayatullah)
  • Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions, (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 2002) (with Sohail Inayatullah)
  • The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University, (Bergin &Garvey, Westport, Connecticut, 2000) (with Sohail Inayatullah)

Journal special issue editing[edit]

  • Special issue of Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies (Forthcoming, 2010) on “Global Mindset Change” (co-edited with Rakesh Kapoor).
  • Special issue of New Political Science (2009) on "The Changing Face of Political Ideologies in the Global Age" (co-edited with Manfred B. Steger).
  • Special issue of Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies (1998, Vol. 30, No. 7) on The University – Alternative Futures” (co-edited with Sohail Inayatullah).

Selected academic journal articles[edit]

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