Around the world few people have a clue what happens to their poo after it’s flushed away. But for environmental engineer Emily Woods, the question of managing human waste has occupied her mind since her undergraduate years.
He has been Director-General of the Ministry of Education in Finland, held a professorship at Harvard University and is now professor of education policy at the University of New South Wales. But after high school, when he tried to get into a teaching degree course in Finland, he was knocked back.
For 20 years, Mark Hutchinson has been breaking down territorial boundaries. His career has thus become not just a case study in highly original research, but a simultaneous battle against intellectual bureaucracy.