by Tracey Follows, Founder\/Director of the Female Futures Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Jennifer Gidley is a former President of the World Futures Studies Federation (2009\u22122017), a UNESCO and UN partner and global peak body for futures studies scholarship, she led a network of hundreds of world leading futures scholars and researchers from around the globe. <\/em>An adjunct Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS in Sydney, futurist, author, psychologist and educator, Jennifer is a prolific author of dozens of academic papers, serves on several academic boards, and most recently authored Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures<\/a> (Springer, 2016) & The Future: A Very Short Introduction<\/a> (Oxford, 2017). <\/em><\/p>\n Tracey: I spoke to Jennifer about her perspective on Female Futures.<\/p>\n One of the issues we discuss a lot at The Female Futures Bureau is why more female futurists don\u2019t have a higher profile. And Jennifer agrees that it\u2019s not because they aren\u2019t around:<\/p>\n \u201cI actually believe there are a large number of female futurists globally, and probably always have been. I would suggest that there are as many women involved in futures studies and foresight work as there are men\u2026\u201d<\/u><\/p>\n\n
![<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Gidley is a former President of the World Futures Studies Federation (2009\u22122017), a UNESCO and UN partner and global peak body for futures studies scholarship, she led a network of hundreds of world leading futures scholars and researchers from around the globe. <\/em>An adjunct Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS in Sydney, futurist, author, psychologist and educator, Jennifer is a prolific author of dozens of academic papers, serves on several academic boards, and most recently authored Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures<\/a> (Springer, 2016) & The Future: A Very Short Introduction<\/a> (Oxford, 2017). <\/em><\/p>\nTracey: I spoke to Jennifer about her perspective on Female Futures.<\/p>\nOne of the issues we discuss a lot at The Female Futures Bureau is why more female futurists don\u2019t have a higher profile. And Jennifer agrees that it\u2019s not because they aren\u2019t around:<\/p>\n\n\u201cI actually believe there are a large number of female futurists globally, and probably always have been. I would suggest that there are as many women involved in futures studies and foresight work as there are men\u2026\u201d<\/u><\/p>\nRead More<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Interview with Jennifer Gidley by Tracey Follows, Founder\/Director of the Female Futures Bureau Jennifer Gidley is a former President of the World Futures Studies Federation (2009\u22122017), a UNESCO and UN partner and global peak body for futures studies scholarship, she led a network of hundreds of world leading futures scholars and researchers from around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,37,225,1901,17,410],"tags":[2907,2905,2908,703,2219,2903,2904,2906],"class_list":["post-74185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-philosophy","category-sex","category-sustainability","category-transparency","tag-futures-studies","tag-gender","tag-human-futures","tag-media","tag-women","tag-women-futurists","tag-women-in-science","tag-womens-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74188,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74185\/revisions\/74188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/prof-jennifer-gidley-267x300.jpg\"){kind=link}