Aidan Ricketts
Aidan Ricketts
Activist, author, social change educator
Aidan works as a lecturer at the School Of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University and has postgraduate qualifications in law as well as in educational design. Aidan’s own campaign work began in the Wet Tropics campaign in 1984 and continued through his role as a coordinator of the North East Forest Alliance from 1991-2003. He is currently involved in the campaign against coal seam gas mining in Northern NSW.
In 2003 Aidan established a groundbreaking University-accredited activism training course. Aidan also provides activist training workshops and consultancies for various campaign groups including CSG-Free Northern Rivers (NSW), Save our Foreshores (Airlie Beach QLD), Huon Valley Environment Centre (Tasmania), Still Wild Still Threatened (Tasmania), Threatened Coastal Communities Alliance (Wooli NSW), and Campaign to stop Chiko battery hen farm (Port Vila Vanuatu).
Aidan’s book “The Activists Handbook: A Step By Step Guide to Participatory Democracy”was published in 2012 and distributed internationally, including in the UK, North America, Australia and the Pacific. The Activists Handbook is a culmination of a lifetime of passion and dedication to social change and reflects Aidan’s extensive experience working with a wide range of activists and campaign groups.