
Richard Light
ABOUT
Richard Light
Richard Light was expelled from his Byron Bay school in year 12 but eventually scraped through Teachers College to teach in Australia and Japan. Returning to Australia to complete a PhD in Human Movement (UQ), he embarked on a successful academic career. Promoted to professor eight years later he had appointments in Australia, France, England, and New Zealand and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Canterbury (NZ). Publishing over 200 journal articles, book chapters, and 12 books, Grief and Growth is his first non-academic book. It is a story about dealing with death in a way that promotes personal, professional, and spiritual growth to give life meaning.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.