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Jennifer is a psychologist, educator and futures researcher. Her transdisciplinary career includes experience as a school and community psychologist, teaching principal, academic teacher and researcher, and consultant, spanning three decades and all educational levels. A significant academic achievement was to co-design, develop, convene and instruct the online component of the Masters in Strategic Foresight at Swinburne University, Melbourne (2003-2006). She currently works as a Research Fellow in the Globalization and Culture Program of the Global Cities Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and was elected President (2009-2013) of the World Futures Studies Federation.
Jennifer is currently based in Melbourne, but travels widely for research collaboration leading to speaking invitations across five continents over the last ten years—Australia, Europe (Sweden, France, Germany), North and South America, Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Taiwan, Malaysia). She works globally, creating networks—both conceptual and human—between futures studies and other transdisciplinary fields, such as integral studies, global studies, and global youth movements. She is a member of several international advisory boards, e.g. of the Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS), and serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals (Integral Review, Journal of Futures Studies, Policy Futures in Education).
Jennifer has researched and published widely in educational and youth futures, and global socio-cultural change, including two books, a monograph and dozens of academic articles. More recently she has turned her attention to researching, writing and speaking about ‘big picture’ global issues such as rapid socio-cultural change, planetary futures and the evolution of consciousness—or what she calls the megatrends of the mind. She recently co-edited two special issues: “Global Mindset Change” in the journal Futures, and “The Changing Face of Political Ideologies in the Global Age” for New Political Science.
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