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.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.
Dr Pavel Cenkl
pavel.cenkl@dartington.org
Pavel is Head of Schumacher College, and oversees Programme Development for Movement, Mind, and Ecology.
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.
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@dartington.org
Scholar, songwriter and musician, Dr Valentin Gerlier is Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for MA Poetics of Imagination.
Dr Marie Hale
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.