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FUREDY RESEARCH AND ADVISING INC.
24 Astley Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3B4, Canada

At the end of October, 2005, FRAI will relocate to Sydney, Australia. The phone and email contacts for FRAI after our arrival and settling in (mid November, 2005) will be posted here in early October. We shall retain the UofT email, although we may add another Sydney-based on by mid November.

PRINCIPALS:

JOHN J. FUREDY, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., F.I.O.P., F.I.C.P.M., F.A.P.A., F.A.P.S., F.A.Ps.S., F.C.P.A., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto; web address is
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Bond University, Australia; web address is: see Staff
Status Only Cross Appointment, Center for Brain Research, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey (1997, for collaborative biobehavioral research); center's web address is: see International Collaboration section.

CHRISTINE P. FUREDY, B.A., D.Phil., Senior Scholar & Associate Professor Emerita, Urban Studies, Faculty of Arts, York University, Toronto. Web site:

FRAI is devoted to the critical assessment of the effects of new ideas and technologies in legal, psychological, and environmental areas. The principals have long experience in research, writing, lecturing, and project planning in psychophysiology, legal psychology, higher education, urban planning, solid waste management and community development (with special reference to Asia).

SUMMARY OF CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

These are examples of the consulting work done separately (and, for higher education, jointly) by the Furedys:

1. (JJF) Consultant (for expert opinion) to Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia on the admissibility of “friendly” polygraph evidence by the defence.
For Western Australian Supreme Court’s judgment that was consistent with JJF’s expert opinion, see:

2. (JJF) Consultant to Australian Security Intelligence Organization on whether to follow USA practice in using the polygraph for security checks.

3. (JJF) Civil and Military Criminal Bar (expert witness and consultant on problems related to the use of the polygraph , both for prosecution and defence,, and on problems arising from police-induced confessions later denied by a suspect).

4. (JJF) Civil Law firms (expert witness and consultant on problems related both to the "hostile" and "friendly" polygraphist, and on problems of distinguishing between voluntary and reflexive actions in civil damage suits).

5. (JJF) Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr. prosecution. ROLE?

6. (JJF) Psychophysiological effects of user-hostile programming in human/computer interactions.

7. (JJF) International lecturer, writer, editorial consultant, and editor in academic psychology, specializing in psychophysiology and theoretical psychology. PUT THIS FIRST, I THINK

8. (CF) Solid waste management (particular reference Asia metropolises and social aspects). Consulting contracts from United Nations Centre for Regional Development; World Health
Organization; World Bank; United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.

9. (CF) Enabling strategies for environmental management, India (Hyderabad) and Kenya (Nairobi), European Union INCO, University of Amsterdam, International Institute for Environment and Development.

10. (CF) Urban agriculture. International Development Research Centre, consultant.

11. (CF) Wastefed aquaculture-social aspects. (World Bank and Economic and Scientific Commission for Asia and Pacific).

12. (CF) Waste management in coastal regions of ASIAN countries (International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources and Management and Asia Development Bank).

13. (CF) Asian waste management, Canadian International Development Agency, Asian Institute of Technology.
14. (CF) Consultant on community development projects of non-profit organizations in Kolkata, India.

15. (CF) International lecturing, research, writing and editing in solid waste and excreta management, small-scale waste recycling, urban management, community development, urban agriculture, women's employment, and poverty lifestyles.

16. (JJF/CF) Institutes of chartered Accountants of Canada (commissioned report on advantages and disadvantages of open-book examination system).

17. (JJF/CF) Workshops and seminars on higher education and critical thinking.

Contacts until beginning of September, 2005.

E-mail: JJF:
CF:
Please email for postal address or phone/fax.

Contacts after September, 2005
Canadian email addresses for JJF and CF will be regularly checked in Sydney. An Australian email address for FRAI will be arranged by October 2005.