People
Ian Roderick
Ian is the Director of the Schumacher Institute, he is also the past president of the UK Systems Society . His early career was in Operational Research, and he co-founded a sucessful software company in 1982. In 2002 he completed an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at Bath University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Nicola Jones
Nicola is a director of the Schumacher Institute. Her approach to systems thinking draws on her multi-disciplinary experience. This includes working as a lawyer in the private client and corporate fields, in the UK and internationally, as a family business and family wealth advisor and as a relationship counsellor. Nicola recently completed an MA in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Richard St. George
Richard St.George was the director of Schumacher UK, an environmental think-tank and lobby group promoting ecological values, based in Bristol, England. Richard's passion has always been for environmental issues. He was one of Britain's first graduates of environmental science and strengthened this commitment with a two-year stint as a U.N. fisheries development officer in the central Pacific. He was on the staff of the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales in its early years and the first co-ordinator of the Centre for Sustainable Energy in Bristol. He has had his own solar energy business and been a consultant on green construction. To keep himself sane from pushing paper for the planet, Richard is working on the design of a kit ecohome called A Home in a Box.
Daphne Kourkounaki
Daphne was awarded an MSc in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies from the Centre for Alternative Technology in March 2009, and also holds an undergraduate Master's of Engineering (MEng) degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics from the University of Bath. She also completed an OCN level course in Mentoring and Counselling Skills at City of Bristol College in 2008, which she uses in her work as a mentor to her colleagues and to participants of the Open Platform career development programme that she co-designed.
Alice-Marie Archer
Alice-Marie (please just call her Alice) studied Environmental Geoscience under Professor Vala Ragnarsdottir at the University of Bristol where she became immersed in socio-environmental issues. She has been awarded a Peter Kirk Scholarship for her research into the management of regional parks and European integration and the Marras prize for languages. Alice obtained her Msc in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability at the Blekinge Technical University in Sweden. More information on her research into how Collaborative Innovation Networks can be strategic towards Sustainability can be found at: http://farthesis.blogspot.com/ and at http://www.collaborationninja.com.
At the Schumacher Institute Alice currently coordinates the EU funded CONVERGE project where her role is to facilitate the delivery of the project over the next 4 years. Alice implements a holistic, systems approach to transformational change drawing on her scientific background to inform her whilst using her knowledge of languages and culture to help her to forge links between communities. Alice is keen to apply her new expertiese in problem solving around using the web to facilitate collaborative projects, so please get in touch with her if your collaboration needs a ninja!
In her spare time she enjoys exploring other cultures and language systems, walking, dancing and making music: http://www.myspace.com/nicadeep.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/petitepeche
Email: alice@schumacherinstitute.org.uk
Martin Kelly
Martin started with the Institute as a volunteer in autumn 2007 and graduated to a part-time position in autumn 2008. Over this time, he has been involved with the construction and marketing of the Conference Carbon Calculator and has conducted research into waste, recycling and hydrogen fuel. His current project involves contacting communities on the front-line of climate change and other issues of marginalisation in order to partner them with each other to exchange knowledge. He also helps edit the Institute's website and undertakes administration for both the Institute and the Open Platform careers programme. As a participant of Open Platform as well, he hopes to develop a project involving his interests in international culture and languages. Martin graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in Physics with Astronomy in 2004.
Martin@schumacherinstitute.org.uk
Emmelie Brownlee
Emmelie is in her third year studying English Literature and Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University. She became interested in environmental issues during sixth form and then at University decided that she wanted to get involved in reducing climate change when she left. The cultural criticism aspect of her course made her realise that the way to change our lifestyles to more sustainable ones was to change the way we think about the way we live. She has joined Ian in a project called Changing Minds, using her critical thinking experience to understand why we react the way we do to environmental discourse and to create communicational guidelines which will succeed in changing the way people live. She is also interested in the social justice aspects of the work at Schumacher Institute.
Lachlan Fulton
Lachlan studied at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and graduated in 2008 with a first class honours degree in Environment and Enterprise. With a keen interest in developing behavioural change his focus is on carbon management and has gained commercial experience from working with an international consultancy.
At SISS, Lachlan is a member of the Open Platform and is involved in a project with Bristol International Airport. Such work compliments his MSc in Sustainable Aviation which he formally starts at MMU later this year.
