Fellows
In addition to its core staff the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems has a network of Research Fellows and Distinguished Fellows upon which it can call for direct expert support and access to a wide ranging network of academic, business and civil society contacts.
The Research Fellows actively participate in Research programmes, providing the Institute with a cadre of highly qualified, experienced and creative Principal Researchers to support, guide and lead research teams. There is also considerable media experience amongst our Research Fellows including print and web authoring and film making. This gives the Institute a strong communications and dissemination capability enabling it to realise one of its main objectives, that of active and effective engagement with the public on sustainable issues.
The Distinguished Fellows are highly respected leaders in their field and give the Institute access to world class expertise, guidance and review capabilities that will further support the Institute’s aim of delivering a high quality and authoritative research programme.
Research Fellows
Barbara Adam is a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. She is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Barbara has written extensively on approaches to time and the future. [see profile]
John Blewitt is a Senior Lecturer at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where he is Co-Director of the MSc Social Responsibility and Sustainability. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Communication and Education, a Schumacher Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Higher Education Academy. His most recent book is Media, Ecology and Conservation: Using the media to protect the world's wildlife and ecosystems, published in 2010 by Green Books, Totnes... [read full profile]
Mike Clinton is involved in Senior Operational Research, with particular experience in complex systems studies including geopolitical country profiling and scenario development involving understanding the recent history, social, economic and political circumstances and assessing strategic risks and opportunities... [read full profile]
David Gibbon does Facilitation, Research and Consultancy in Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods; Interdisciplinary and Participatory Learning Systems; Organic Farming Research and development and Institutional monitoring and critical learning... [read full profile]
Steve Harris is a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Bristol, UK, where he investigates the social, technical and economic challenges of climate change and the transition to post-carbon living... [read full profile]
Donnie Maclurcan is a Distinguished Fellow based in Australia. Donnie aims to inspire creative and just transitions to truly sustainable societies, where people think critically, act collectively and live considerately. He completed a PhD in social science: ‘Nanotechnology and the hope for a more equitable world: A mixed methods study’. This dissertation was one of the world’s first comprehensive investigations of nanotechnology’s possible global consequences, building on the work of E.F. Schumacher and grounded in a critique of modernity and mainstream development ... [read full profile]
Jacqui Wilmshurst is a highly motivated and experienced leader, facilitator, manager and researcher in a diverse range of working environments with substantial experience of people and service development... [read full profile]
Zoe Young is an international research consultant and independent film maker, author of A New Green Order? The World Bank and the Politics of the Global Environment Facility (Pluto Press, London, 2002)... [read full profile]