Inventing Futures

I am a practitioner, researcher and writer focusing on local level development and ways of building sustainable futures.

Some recent headlines from my work include my new book ‘Disaster Makers: Tackling Unmanaged Growth for Sustainable Futures‘ published in February 2025 by Bloomsbury.

I’ve also written the 2019 publication ‘Making Aid Agencies Work‘ (Emerald). The report ‘Turning the World Upside down‘  was based on consultation between members of local CSOs responding to the short and longer-term challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic; a resource microsite ‘Dealing With Disasters‘ was directed at national Civil Society Platforms;  I researched and wrote a resource guide on integrated local action – ‘The Coherence Cookbook‘;  I facilitated, with John Norton, a special edition of the Journal of Disaster Prevention and management  ‘Disaster prevention – Doing it differently by rethinking the nature of knowledge and learning’

You can find out more about these and other projects in ‘ideas and stuff.’

(Beyond my professional work I also make music . . .)