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.
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Dartington Arts School Researchers

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.

Alan Boldon
alan.boldon@dartington.org
Alan Boldon is a practising artist and the Managing Director of the Dartington Trust. He specialises in arts and ecology and systems thinking.

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.

Martin Shaw
martin.shaw@schumachercollege.org.uk
Martin is currently Reader in Poetics of Imagination at Dartington Art School and Programme Lead for the MA of the same name. His work circles mythology and landscape, oral storytelling and poetics.

Tracey Warr
tracey.warr@dartington.org
Tracey is Head of Dartington Arts School and Head of Research. She is a fiction and non-fiction writer and also works with text in the vicinity of art.
schumacher college Researchers

Dr Pavel Cenkl
pavel.cenkl@dartington.org
Pavel is Head of Schumacher College, and oversees Programme Development for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.

Jonathan Dawson
Jonathan Dawson is College Fellow. For many years he was Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer for our Regenerative Economics programme.

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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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.

Dr Sarah Elisa Kelly
sarahelisa.kelly@dartington.org
Dr Sarah Elisa Kelly’s background is in cultural theory and critical thinking, with interests spanning the arts and environmental humanities.

Dr Andy Letcher
andy.letcher@schumachercollege.org.uk
Andy is the programme lead for MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College.

Dr Mona Nasseri
mona.nasseri@schumachercollege.org.uk
Mona is 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 Rachel Sweeney
rachel.sweeney@dartington.org
Rachel is Programme Lead and Senior Lecturer for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.