After graduating from the University of Queensland in Science and in Arts, Ted Duhs spent his early working life as a teacher in secondary schools in various states of Australia in both the private and the public education system. He was appointed head of the Mathematics Department at The Scots College, Sydney in the 1960s, and followed this with two years as Deputy Headmaster at the Ipswich Grammar School. He worked as an instructor with the Dale Carnegie Courses in Public Speaking before moving to the United Kingdom. In London he taught at Hill House International School. In the early 1970s he returned to the University of Queensland to study economics. In 1974 he won the Archibald Prize for economics, as well as the Economic Society’s prizes for Economic Methodology and for Economic Behaviour. He spent 1980 in California as an exchange lecturer teaching Operations Research at the University of San Jose. He returned to Queensland and spent the next 25 years as a lecturer in economics at the Queensland Institute of Technology, which later became the Queensland University of Technology. After completing courses with the Securities Institute of Australia in the 1990s he taught, and practised, Foreign Exchange Trading. From 1991 to 2003, he was associate editor, and later editor, of the quarterly business journal, Queensland Economic Forecasts and Business Review. He became an honorary research fellow at QUT and also taught at the Brisbane campuses of the University of New England and Central Queensland University.
After leaving university life in 2007 he became interested in the field of criminology. His book Crucial Errors in Murder Investigations was published by Bond University Press in 2012. It treats some 18 controversial cases in which significant procedural issues arise. Supplementary material and relevant updates regarding these cases are provided in his associated website www.miscarriagesofjustice.com.au
His latest book I Know Who Killed Betty Shanks was published by Boolarong Press in 2014. He is presently working on another book entitled Miscarriages of Justice.
Books by Ted Duhs
