A Father Christmas Story: Being a Tale of How Father Christmas Came to Be

Paul T Kidd’s professional background lies in science, technology and engineering, but writing his is vocation. He has also been involved in the social sciences, business, and management. The result has been the development of a transdisciplinary perspective on the world, and freed from the self-imposed intellectual prison that disciplinary perspectives create, he writes.

His professional experience spans several sectors, including: discrete parts manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; nuclear power; marine; retail; agriculture; ICT; higher education; and publishing. This gives him a perspective on the world that those bound by sector interests do not have. And from this viewpoint he sees many common issues that to most others remain unseen. His forte is most definitely on the higher level perspective, so he focuses on strategic issues and the development of research policies and strategies for sustainable manufacturing and sustainable agriculture.

As an author and writer his work was initially mainly focused on writing in the area of manufacturing and the related technology management issues, but now encompasses a wider range of technologies, subjects and application domains. In 2001 he began to develop his writing career in the area of fiction.

His main concern at the present time is dealing with the collective belief that leads people to continue applying more of the science, engineering and technology (SET) that is so evidently responsible for the many problems that are threatening the wellbeing of humanity and the planet. He aims to open peoples’ eyes to the possibility of developing new approaches to SET. This he explore through his writing, both fiction and non-fiction. Paul also believes that it is not only necessary to reinvent these important aspects of modern civilisation, but to also to begin a similar process in the domains of free-market economics and religion, because these too are also threatening the wellbeing of humanity and the planet, and it is time also to bring together science, religion and free-market economics in a new, positive, respectful and productive relationship.