Our Researchers

Our academic staff research includes publications and research projects in contemporary arts practices and production, holistic science, innovative learning for ecological and social change, regenerative economics, and regenerative food and farming.

Bram Thomas Arnold

Bram Thomas Arnold

Bram.Arnold@dartington.org

Dr Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist who started with walking and kept going into performance, drawing, installation, writing and academia. He is Associate Lecturer for our Poetics of Imagination programme.

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Pavel Cenkl

Dr Pavel Cenkl

pavel.cenkl@dartington.org

Pavel is Head of Schumacher College, and oversees Programme Development for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.

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Nathan Einbinder

Dr Nathan Einbinder

nathan.einbinder@schumachercollege.org.uk

Nathan is course lead for our Regenerative Food, Farming & Enterprise programme. Before arriving at Schumacher, Nathan taught geography at San Diego State University and the University of Northern British Columbia.

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Roberto Fraquelli

Professor Roberto Fraquelli

roberto.fraquelli@schumachercollege.org.uk

Roberto is Senior Lecturer for MA Ecological Design Thinking. He is interested in Holistic Design and the dilemma many designers face between the pressures of economic growth and an empathy with all living systems.
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Valentin Gerlier

Valentin Gerlier

valentin.gerlier@dartington.org

Scholar, songwriter and musician, Dr Valentin Gerlier is Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for MA Poetics of Imagination.

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Marie Metenier

Dr Marie Hale

marie.metenier@dartington.org

Marie is Lecturer for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.

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Stephan Harding

Dr Stephan Harding

stephan.harding@schumachercollege.org.uk

Stephan is a Deep Ecology Research Fellow and has been teaching on the MSC Holistic Science programme since its inception in 1998.

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Jo Joelson

Jo Joelson

jo.joelson@dartington.org

Dr Jo Joelson is Programme Lead for MA Arts and Place. She is a London based artist, researcher and writer.

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Dr Andy Letcher

Dr Andy Letcher

andy.letcher@schumachercollege.org.uk

Andy is the programme lead for MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College. 

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Mona Nasseri

Dr Mona Nasseri

mona.nasseri@schumachercollege.org.uk

Mona is Head of Research at Schumacher College and Programme Lead for MA Ecological Design Thinking. She joined Schumacher College in 2014 and been involved in the delivery and development of the programme since its inception.
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Dr Simon Platten

Dr Simon Platten

simon.platten@dartington.org

Dr Simon Platten is senior lecturer and course lead for BSc Regenerative Food and Farming, and lecturer for our MSc Regenerative Food, Farming and Enterprise.

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Rachel Sweeney

Dr Rachel Sweeney

rachel.sweeney@dartington.org

Rachel is Head of Schumacher College Programmes and Programme Lead and Senior Lecturer for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.

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martin shaw

Martin Shaw

martin.shaw@schumachercollege.org.uk

Martin is currently Reader and Programme Lead for our Poetics of Imagination programme. His work circles mythology and landscape, oral storytelling and poetics.

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Tracey Warr

Tracey Warr

Tracey is a fiction and non-fiction writer and also works with text in the vicinity of art. She is an Associate Lecturer on our Poetics of Imagination programme.

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