Frank Fisher

BE(Elec)(Hons), BA(Hons), MEnvSt(Hons), FEIANZ, FAIE, MIEA

Associate Professor

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Frank Fisher is founder of the  Understandascope, a research and demonstration unit and website. It is a multi-interest open forum hosted by Monash University. Even though the Understandasope's staff members are based primarily at Monash University, the site intends to generate input from non-academic participants.

Frank is an Engineer (industry 1965-75) and was Director of Monash University's Graduate School of Environmental Science. Long-term lecturer and developer of Science and Systems Theory, Frank currently teaches and convenes a graduate sustainability program in the Swinburne University of Technology National Centre for Sustainability (he teaches Principles of Sustainability and Energy for the Future). He was also involved in the development of the innovative Health, Knowledge and Society course for the new Monash five year medical curriculum.

Frank is also chronically ill (Crohn's) and lives with just 15% of small intestine. Consequently he is a health consumer advocate on some 20 committees nationally including the governing council of the Consumer Health Forum and three committees at Melbourne Health (including Quality and Safety).