Jonathan teaches on the PGCert Empowering Education, where he co-leads the ‘Reimagining Higher Education’ module. He has taught acting/performance skills on DMU's 3-day 'Effective learning and teaching' course and staff workshops on 'The joy of systems thinking' and 'Systems thinking for academics'. He also teaches on DMU’s MSc Energy and Sustainable Development.
Jonathan was appointed a DMU Teacher Fellow in 2020 and his previous teaching roles include DMU’s MSc Medical Leadership, Education and Research and Derby University’s BA History and MA Humanities. 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.
Previous research posts include: Research Fellow on an MRC and AHRC funded mental health and theatre project which he co-devised, based in Pune, India; Research Fellow for two AHRC-funded community history of green spaces projects at Nottingham University.
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 metacrisis. Prior to joining DMU, Jonathan trained and worked as an actor.