Director:
Frank Fisher
Quality & Services Committee
Frank Fisher is Prof. Sustainability, Faculty of Design and convener Graduate Sustainability programs National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne Uni.
His work is based on the idea that humans create their expectations of the world socially and therefore can change them - socially. For a decade he was an electrical power engineer in Sweden, Switzerland and Australia; retrained in languages, geography and environmental science; was lecturer to assoc. prof. Env.Sc.and director Monash Uni. Graduate School of Environmental Science from 1978 to 2005; initiated various research & consulting centres (most recently The Understandascope) and a 52.5 MW wind farm at Ararat in Victoria.
His 50 years with Crohn's Disease and its consequences have lead to another life in consumer health advocacy (at any time working on a dozen local, state & national committees).
He has two sons, a musician/fashion designer and a journalist/editor; his partner is an environmental scientist and farmer.
Inaugural Australian environmental educator of the year (2007-8). Recent book: Response Ability: Environment Health & Everyday Transcend-ence, Vista, 2006. For recent articles, see e.g. The Age newspaper.