Biographical Sketch
Dr Marcus Bussey is Lecturer in World History/Sustainable Futures and also Research Fellow in Regional Futures with the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Sustainability Research Centre. He is currently working on the project South East Queensland: Climate Adaptation Research Initiative. This is a cross institutional project involving the CSIRO, the University of the Sunshine Coast, Griffith University and Queensland University.
He has taught widely throughout Australia having spent 5 years at a yoga based neohumanist school run by Ananda Marga, 4 years in an urban community school run by a parent cooperative, 7 years in Montessori primary and high schools, and 6 years at the University of the Sunshine. He has presented papers on futures thinking, education, social change, personal transformation and community engagement in Taiwan, Sweden, Serbia, Israel, India and the US. In 2003 he completed a pilot study for the Queensland Department of Families as part of their project Queensland 2020: a State for All Ages. This included a stimulus paper and 20 minute video, both entitled: Youth Voices: Young Queenslander's Values in a Time of Structural Ageing.
He is also an accomplished musician with 4 CD's to his credit and he uses the Suzuki method to teach classical guitar (www.guitariacs.com). Marcus has authored over 50 articles, book chapters and an encyclopaedia entry, co-authored Futures Thinking for Social Foresight (2005) with Richard Slaughter, co-edited Neohumanist Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect (2006) with Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic, co-edited Fire in their Eyes, Flowers in their Heart: Tantric Women Tell their Stories (2007) with Jennifer Jayanti Fitzgerald, and co-edited Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds (2008) again with Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic. He is an associate of the Prout Institute of Australia (www.pia.org.au) where he teaches courses in Tantra, Spirituality and Social Change, and Education for Liberation.
