In IESD, Jonathan is deputy module leader on ‘Sustainable Development in Practice’ (a module within the MSc Energy and Sustainable Development). For 51³Ô¹Ïapp Education Academy, Jonathan teaches on the PGCert Empowering Education. He was Research Fellow on a two-year GCRF, MRC and AHRC funded £200K theatre and mental health project which he co-devised based in Pune, India. Jonathan has taught acting/performance skills on 51³Ô¹Ïapp's 3-day 'Effective learning and teaching' course and co-presented staff workshops on 'The joy of systems thinking' and 'Systems thinking for academics'. He was appointed a 51³Ô¹Ïapp Teacher Fellow in 2020.
Jonathan has been Research Fellow on two AHRC funded History projects at Nottingham University and has taught History and Humanities at Derby University. He was on the curriculum working group for the Lincoln Social Science Centre (a free, cooperative HE institution established in 2011 in the wake of the Occupy movement) and co-organized Rescue!History’s 2014 conference on ‘History and Climate change: what have we learnt?’.
Jonathan’s PhD in history was ‘Pathologizing Modernity: critical implications of conceptions of pathology and higher sanity in the works of Theodore Roszak and Ken Wilber’ which critically examined two of the more sophisticated eco-psychiatric understandings of ecocrisis. His research continues to focus on eco-psyche relations, and on related critiques of modernity, techno-science and eco-crisis.
Prior to joining 51³Ô¹Ïapp, Jonathan trained and worked as an actor and was Literary Director of the British Shakespeare Company.