Robyn PenmanRobyn Penman (PhD, UMelb) has devoted her scholarly career to the development of a practical-theoretic approach to understanding communication as a relational practice. She has been equally as focused on asking questions about what makes for good comunicating and what this can mean in the public sphere. Robyn has been an independent communication scholar and consultant to the Australian government on communication and social policy matters. She was also a Founding Director of the Communication Research Institute of Australia (1987-2000) and an Adjunct Professor in Communication at the University of Canberra (1999-2005). Robyn is a past President (1985-6) and Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, has served on the International Communication Association board (2002-3) and is a Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, Oxford (1987-). She was also the associate editor of the Australian Journal of Communication (1984-2003) and has served on the editorial boards of Communication Theory and Human Communication Research. She is currently a board member of the CMM Institute and a co-director of the Cosmopolis2045 project. The Cosmopolis2045 project and this current book provide an extraordinary opportunity for Robyn to show how her understandings of communicating can be used for making for better social worlds. Read More Read Less