'A Future for Planning: Taking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges' - my first book published by Routledge in May 2019. 'Welcome to the Rebellion: A New Hope in Radical Politics' - to be published by Zero Books in June 2020. Michael is an experienced independent researcher and writer who has worked across numerous sectors including education, technology, innovation, government, public services and urban planning. He has produced more than a hundred leading reports for organisations, both his own writing and working with some of the most important scholars across many fields. He has also used his experience to build up effective policy and research teams for a succession of organisations, increasing their impact on government policy and practitioners in many sectors. His work has been featured in national media including BBC News, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, and Prospect magazine, as well as numerous leading academic journals. Michael’s research interests have included reforming education so it harnesses the latest technologies, how leading businesses and organisations innovate in radical new ways, rethinking how public services can be organised to better serve people’s needs and save money, and challenging the closed way in which much government policy is developed. Most recently he has focused on planning for the most challenging future trends, such as climate change, population growth, economic and technological disruption, and the worldwide collapse in trust in political institutions. Michael is currently working on his third book, about survival in the twenty-first century. Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
