A site dedicated to researching the future of Freemasonry
This site was launched in 2009 to support the work I had been undertaking on the future of Freemasonry. In my "day job" I am employed as a Lecturer at Bradford University School of Management. During my researches I come across a great deal of material that has equal applicability to the organisation of Freemasonry as it would an occupational milieux. I started to collect these together as a spin-off project and developed a lecture to deliver to masonic lodges. My main research area at the university is organisational learning. However in the broadest sense the underlying theme is how individuals relate to broad-based coalitions of interest, such as Freemasonry.
Thus, I have been working in the area of what you might call strategy formulation for about 10 years now. Unfortunately, however, there is no publisher or journal that would begin to entertain this subject area. This is true of both masonic publications and learned journals. Most of the work in masonic research is assumed to be historical in nature. The work of Freemasonry Tomorrow is derived from the discipline of organisational behaviour. As such it falls neatly between both subject areas. Freemasonry Tomorrow was thus created so I could make my work publicly available in the forlorn hope that some people might actually find it interesting.
Masonically I am a member of the Lodge of Connaught and Truth No. 521. This meets in Huddersfield, in the Province of Yorkshire (West Riding). I joined in 1991 and am currently a "Past Master without portfolio", preferring to stay on the side-lines.. I am a Provincial Officer, PPSGD. Formerly I was a member of Chapter, Mark, Marriners as well as a member of our daughter lodge before amalgamation. I have been a member of the Media Committee for West Riding and was the webmaster for the Provincial website.
All views expressed on this web site are my own and do not reflect the view of the United Grand Lodge of England or the Province of Yorkshire West Riding. However, I reserve the right to publish without imprimateur in the liberal tradition of academic freedom.
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