Cameron Richards

Cameron Richards is a semi-retired Australian professor of interdisciplinary studies with extensive experience in the Asia-Pacific region - including at QUT, Nanyang Uni. Singapore, Hong Kong Institute of Education, University of Western Australia, UTM in Malaysia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He has a multi-disciplinary background for a current/future focus on sustainability studies, policy research, academic research and writing methodology, leadership and organizational learning, educational technologies, intercultural communication, curriculum innovation, and new literacies. However, in his semi-retirement his other main interest (besides ‘community advocacy’ and ‘seniors lifelong learning’) has been family history and related genealogical research and writing. His recent work “Prosperous: The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia” has re-awakened his initial career focus on and interest in Australian (and world) cultural history. He plans to transform some of his early writings in this area into his next book – to be followed by another converting his earlier educational interests in ‘critical thinking for the 21st Century’ etc. into a guidebook for being an effective future global citizen.