Adjunct Professor Frank Fisher, is a recipient of the Inaugural Australian Environmental Educator of the Year award and works with Swinburne, Faculty of Design in the areas of sustainability and systems design thinking. Frank is committed to social transformation to a more sensitive self-aware world. He has worked in the area of environmental education for three decades, much of that time as Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University in Melbourne. He uses the insights he has gained to transform his own life which, in addition striving for sustainable practice, has included learning to live positively, with a life threatening condition.
Frank has published numerous papers on context education and specifically, on the social contexts of health, transport and energy. A selection of these has (2006) been published as a book by Vista Publications called "Response Ability: Environment, Health & Everyday Transcendence".
Long-term lecturer and developer of Science and Systems Theory, Frank currently teaches and convenes a graduate sustainability program in the Swinburne University National Centre for Sustainability. Frank is a health consumer advocate and a contributing member on some 20 national committees. He was also involved in the development of the innovative Health, Knowledge and Society course for the new Monash University five year medical curriculum.
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