Terry Gibsonwww.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.’ |
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| Contact details: | Terry.gibson@inventing-futures.org. +447887903658 | ||||
| Education and Practice | |||||
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| 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. |
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| 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: | |||||
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| 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’
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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
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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
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Jamba: Vol 7, No 1 (2015)
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| 2014 | GIBSON, T, PELLING, M | Pathways for Transformation: Exposing the opportunity space for disaster risk management to shape development trajectories
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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.
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| 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. | ||
