Curriculum Vitae - Inventing Futures

Terry Gibson www.inventing-futures.org I am a writer and researcher digging into the conundrums and chaos of international development . Moving on from a career in film-making, during which I covered a million miles on shoots in the Global South, I combined doctoral research at Manchester University with my full time role as Operations Director at GNDR to move out from behind the camera, make some sense of what I’d seen and getting active in trying to do something about it. The Frontline programme at GNDR consulted over 100,000 people in villages, towns and cities round the world and I am continuing to research and write about the revolutionary insights we gained from finding out what is really going on at the Frontline. Current projects include a co-editing a special issue of the International Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management, publishing the non-fiction book ‘Making Aid Agencies Work‘ with Emerald Publishing, and other papers, book projects and events. You can see work I’ve published over the last few years in ‘ideas and stuff.’
Contact details:			Terry.gibson@inventing-futures.org. +447887903658
Education and Practice
Period	Activity				Notes
2017-2018	Knowledge exchange fellow				At SPAIS, University of Bristol
2016-	Independent researcher and consultant				Research, development and innovation based on action learning.
2008-2016	Operations director: Global Network for Disaster Reduction				Development and piloting of ‘Frontline’ local resilience profiling programme Development and mobilisation of Views from the Frontline 2009,2011,2013 Development of ‘Action at the Frontline’ action research programme Development of network membership, communications and learning.
2005-2011	Manchester University Institute of Development and Policy Management				Ph.D: ‘Horizontal Learning and Social Media in an International Development Network’
2005-2008	Managing director: Media4change (Now M4C-sustainability)				Founded this third sector company. Developed global Sustainability reporting system for Multinational company SABMiller. Research networks in international development
2003-2005	Manchester University Institute of Development and Policy Management				M.Sc: ‘Globalisation and Development’
1990-2005	Director: Chapel Associates/Mediafour				Co-founded this multimedia production company. Projects included corporate training, broadcast programmes and a wide range of documentary video productions for Tearfund and other INGOs
1985	Queen Elizabeth College, London University				M.Phil: ‘The value of applying biological concepts to industrial organisation’
Recent Publications:
Date		Authors		Title	Journal/publisher
2019		GIBSON, T		Making Aid Agencies Work: Reconnecting INGOs with the people they serve	Book: Emerald Publishing
2019		GIBSON, T and WISNER, B		‘Global overview of the role of NGOs in natural hazard governance’	Chapter in OUP ‘Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazard Science’
2019		GIBSON, T and NORTON, J (Editors)		Special journal issue on local learning and action	International Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management
2017		GIBSON, T		Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: the role of NGOs	Routledge (book chapter)
2016		GIBSON, T, WISNER, B.		“Lets talk about you …” Opening space for local experience, action and learning in disaster risk reduction	International Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management
2016		GIBSON, T et al		Pathways for Transformation: Disaster Risk Management to Enhance Resilience to Extreme Events	Journal of Extreme Events
2015		GIBSON, T		Reflective practitioners: The importance of critical thought for change agents	Jamba: Vol 7, No 1 (2015)
2014		GIBSON, T, PELLING, M		Pathways for Transformation: Exposing the opportunity space for disaster risk management to shape development trajectories	Background paper for UNISDR Global Assessment Report 2015
2013		Various: GIBSON. T. Lead author		Views from the Frontline: Beyond 2015	Global Network for Disaster Reduction
2013		GIBSON. T.		Building community-led resilience: Enabling conditions to improve CSO capacities	Civicus State of Civil Society Report 2013
2012		GIBSON. T.		Building collaboration through shared actions: The experience of the Global Network for Disaster Reduction.	Jamba. Vol 4. No1
2011		GIBSON. T., SCOTT,N		The Role of ICTs in Reducing the Policy Praxis Gap in the Climate Change Field.	NICCD case study series, Manchester University.
2011		GIBSON. T.		Action and change in an emerging network.	Humanitarian exchange. Issue 50.
2011		GIBSON. T.		It’s all one.	Paper presented at Development Studies Association Annual Conference, York, 2011
2011		GIBSON. T.		Building collaboration through shared actions.	Paper presented at World Humanitarian Conference, 2011: Boston.
2011		Various: GIBSON. T. Lead author		If we do not join hands: Views from the Frontline	Global Network for Disaster Reduction
2010		GIBSON. T.		It’s not just the data.	Proceedings of ISCRAM conference. Seattle, May 2010.

Terry Gibson

Taking control of the future