Peter Dunphy–Hetherington is an independent researcher. He was born in Chesterfield (England), lived in Sri Lanka and Australia up to the age of 10 when he moved to West Sussex. He studied Foundation Accounts at South Bank University in (1980–1) and in 1984 moved to South West Spain. In the 1990s he obtained an external degree in Geography from King’s College, London. He has also collaborated in many academic translations over the years both from Spanish to English and vice versa.