GHFP Research Fellows & Research Associates

The GHFP collaborates with scholars, experts and researchers in diverse fields to help in conducting our investigations into the main areas of our concern.

vitality in our research inquiries

Prof Garrett Thomson is the GHFP's Research Director. He received his DPhil from the Oxford University. Currently he is Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster, USA. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of the World Subud Association in 2005-2010. Garrett is the author of numerous books including Needs; Kant; Introduction to Modern Philosophy; and a series of introductory texts on Descartes, Locke, Aristotle, Kant, and Leibniz. He co-edited the six-volume The Longman Standard History of Philosophy. His other recent works include Una Introduccion a la Practica de la Filosofia, On Philosophy and On the Meaning of Life.

	Main areas of GHFP research inquiry

	Wellbeing and human values

	Good governance

	Human-Centred Development

	Peace

	Human-Centred Education

	Narrative Pedagogy

Dr Scherto Ruoshi Gill is GHFP's Research Fellow. Trained in education and sociology, she has interest in dialogue, intercultural learning and 'human-centred education'. Accordingly the focus of her work addresses key questions related to human flourishing and transformation. As a social reseacher, Scherto is particularly interested in the significance of life histories and narratives in the shaping of a personal sense of self, integrity and action in line with huamn values. Scherto is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex where she teaches on Masters and doctoral programmes.

Prof. Ivor Goodson is a visiting Research Fellow at the GHFP. He is also Professor of Learning Theory at he University of Brighton, and Joss Owen Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. During his long academic career of four decades, Ivor has developed a range of qualitative methodologies focusing on life history approaches that connect our understanding of personal motives and missions to wider social movements and processes. Ivor is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Education Policy which he currently co-edits with Stephen Ball and Meg Maguire and is the European Editor for the journal Identity. He has published widely and many of his books have been translated in different languages.

Dr Livingston Armytage is a Visiting Research Fellow at the GHFP. He is a specialist practitioner in judicial and legal reform. He advises governments, courts, aid agencies on reforming justice systems around the world. He is also adjunct professor of law, University of Sydney. With over thirty years' experience directing programs of justice reform, judicial development and civil litigation; Livingston has been a Senior counsel, project director, team leader and technical specialist on ADB, AusAID, United Nations, World Bank and USAID projects in many countries. His expertise includes policy formulation, strategic planning, project design, program direction and management, need assessment, training, performance monitoring and evaluation. He has published widely and his most recent monograph "Reforming Justice" is in press with Cambridge University Press (April, 2012).

Mr. Frédéric Richard is a Research Associate at the GHFP. He has Diploma de l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and received an MBA from Columbia University, New York. He started his career as Professor in management and organization development at the ESCP. He then joined the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) where he worked for more than 20 years, including 10 years as Director. He introduced and managed new and innovative approaches and programmes to support the development of local clusters of SMEs in developing countries and to promote systems of governance based on consultations and cooperation between the government, the private sector and the technical and financial support institutions. He now works as a consultant advising on new forms of strategic governance to a sustainable industrialization in developing countries in a context of globalization of industry and rapid technological changes.