International Health Humanities Network Membership

Jonathan is on the Editorial Committee of The European Journal of Ecospsychology and his research interests include the role of green spaces and the ‘more-than-human’ world in mental well-being. Jonathan is also interested exploring how mental health perspectives and insights might inform our understanding of environmental problems, and his recent publications include:

• History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change & the Possibility of Closure European Journal of Ecopsychology, No. 1, Winter 2010, pp.4-18.

• Ecopsychology and the Historian: some notes on the work of Theodore Roszak’, in European Journal of Ecopsychology, No. 1, Winter 2010, pp.4-18. 

Jonathan is currently a Research Fellow in History at Nottingham University in the UK and lectures in History at Derby University. He gained his PhD in History from Southampton University in 2008 (with a thesis entitled Pathologising Modernity) after completing his MA in The History of Scientific Thought at Leeds University.

He is an active member of Rescue!History and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK. Jonathan recently contributed to the Curriculum Working Group for Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a new ‘free’ university in the East Midlands. He has represented the Green Party in local elections and worked previously for UNICEF, the BBC and as an actor. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London.