Research to make
literacy easier by removing the barriers. This includes the concept of online access to understanding and self-help, and improving
English spelling by maximising its advantages as well as reducing its disadvantages to meet needs and abilities of users and learners. This cognitive psychological research approach goes beyond the conventional assumptions of a purely phonetic solution to
spelling reform as defined in Wikipedia.
Studies of children's imagination and applied imagination.
Social innovations; alternatives for social problems; more natural childcare; preventing waste of
intelligence; the
cognitive effects of very loud music, now pervasive and global; non-destructive pleasures; economic and political alternatives for
sustainability without requiring continual growth; humane solutions to
population growth;[9] cutting production of waste to reduce
carbon emissions; the
psychology of
peace.[10]
Published work
What Happens to Children: The Origins of violence. A Collection of stories told by disadvantaged children who could not write them. Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1979 [11]