Futures-oriented MAs and PhDs by research (meaning low- or no-residency) can be done under Sohail Inayatullah at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, in Brisbane and Carseldine, QLD, Australia, and at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), in the Faculty of Law, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.

Dr. Inayatullah, is also faculty at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, in their Graduate Institute of Futures Studies (GIFS) (See Tamkang U page). He is a widely published and well-regarded futurist, a leader in critical futures, and developer of the discipline of Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), a very effective poststructural futures studies method.

Time: Most students finish in three years. Some go part-time (with appropriately reduced fees) and take from 3-6 years.

Cost: For Non-Residents, roughly USD $30,000 for the whole program. ($10,000-12,000 AUD, or $9K-11K USD per year). For accepted Australian students, fees are waived at QUT. For accepted Australian students, fees can be discounted at the USC, but not waived.

Residency Requirements: At QUT PhD students must come to the university twice, each time for a few days. The first is fora thesis proposal examination and later fora final oral presentation. The University of the Sunshine Coast has no face-to-face (oral exam) requirement, so the entire PhD can be done by distance.

FS Topics: All of the MA and PhD students Dr. Inayatullah has supervised to date (9 are listed below) have been in futures. All students under his supervision have used causal layered analysis in their theses, and some have used other FS methods as well, including scenarios, integral theory, emerging issues analysis, and statistical analysis.

Program Info and Applications:
For QUT:
QUT International

For USC:
Ashleigh Rees
Research Training Officer, Office of Research
University of the Sunshine Coast
P: 07 5459 4526

Theses:
Some theses done under Dr. Inayatullah, with informal titles and informal brief descriptions:

In-Progress PhDs
Marcus Bussey, Educational Futures, 2009 (est)
Applicability of the educational theories of Sarkar, others.
Jose Ramos, Futures of the World Social Forum, 2008-9 (est)
Using CLA to analyze futures litanies of the World Social Forum
David Wright, Images of the Futures of Japan, 2008
Deconstructing/reconstructing community images of the futures of Japan.
Noni Kenny, Futures of Terrorism, 2008
Using CLA to analyze existing litanies on the future of terrorism.
Steve Gould, Maroochy 2025, 2008
Thesis on the future of Maroochy, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.

Completed PhDs
Marcus Anthony, Futures of Education, 2007
Using CLA on litanies of intelligence, toward a more integrated intelligence.
Patricia Kelly, Transforming Learners in Higher Education, 2006
Using CLA and sensemaking to teach futures to engineering students.
Phillip Daffara, City Futures, 2006
Using integral theory, scenarios, and CLA to examine urban futures.

Completed MAs
Kate Teske, Scenarios of the Futures of QLD Government, 2007
Statistical analysis on a number of possible scenarios for QLD political future.


Update: We'll be adding better titles and abstracts in coming weeks. Thanks to all of you who have sent us your thesis title, abstract, university, department, and expected completion date or completion date!

Project: As far as we can tell, there is presently no formal listing of a Futures Studies / Foresight track at QUT or USC. We will follow up with Dr. Inayatullah and investigate how we might help get some formal language on the QUT or USC websites regarding futures options, and how we might help those schools to better promote these affordable, innovative programs to the global futures community.