Our People
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Ian Roderick Ian is the Director of the Schumacher Institute, he is a 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. Contact: ian @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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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. Contact nicola @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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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. Contact richard @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Alice-Marie Archer MSc Alice-Marie is Operations Director of the Schumacher Institute. She manages the EU FP7 funded project CONVERGE exploring process and mechanisms towards equity within biological planetary limits. Her research focus is on systems sciences for sustainability including research into how the web's collaborative potential can be harnessed strategically and practically towards sustainability (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810011286). Alice has a BSc in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Technical University in Sweden. She has been awarded a Peter Kirk Scholarship for her research into the management of regional parks and the Marras prize for languages. Prior to working at the Schumacher Institute she was owner of eco-patisserie & chocolaterie 'Au pays des Merveilles'. Contact alice @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk
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Martin Sandbrook MA MBA MSc Martin is the Director of the Schumacher Institute Education Programmes – the post-graduate certificate Sustainability Toolkit and the MSC in Managing Sustainability and Uncertainty. Martin has explored many areas in his professional work: he has been an accountant, a senior manager in the both public and private sectors, a process consultant and a lecturer, in Business and Management at Bath Spa University. In 2007, he took time out from his working life to study the Responsibility and Business Practice MSc at University of Bath, an experience that changed his life and professional direction. He now combines his passion and commitment to the ideas of sustainability and systems thinking with his experience in management, supporting individuals and organisations make the shift to a more systemic approach to action and change. Contact martin @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Dr Jenneth Parker Jenneth has a BA Hons (Cardiff) and Msc (London School of Economics) in Philosophy and an interdisciplinary DPhil from the University of Sussex drawing on ethics, philosophy of science and social movement theory to discuss ecofeminist ethics for sustainability. She has recently worked with the University of Bristol QUEST Earth System Science climate change team on interdisciplinary synthesis and as a researcher on the EU funded CONVERGE project. She is a former Co-Director of the international Education for Sustainability distance learning Masters programme set up by NGOs after the first Earth Summit in 1992 at London South Bank University, and has worked on the African Commonwealth Scholars programme. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, Bristol, working on interdisciplinary research and learning for sustainability. She has published on critical realist philosophy, and ethics of sustainable development in addition to many publications on education for sustainable development (ESD), most recently for UNESCO. She is currently working on the links between critical realist frameworks and systems theory with reference to examples of interdisciplinary research for sustainability. Contact jenneth @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Emmelie Brownlee
Emmelie is the project co-ordinator for the Bristol’s Green Roots project. She has spent the last year researching the history of Bristol’s sustainability movement; the local environmental campaigns and the organisations, initiatives, community groups and individuals that have developed in the city over the last 40 years.
Contact emmelie @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Lucy Fleetwood Lucy is the Community Liaison Officer and helping with project development. She graduated in 1999 with a degree in Global Futures. She is interested in the global food system, collaboration, the dynamics of power, ownership and governance as well as education for culture and behaviour change. Lucy has a background in community development and is a director at The Association of Sustainability Practitioners. She has a passion for woodland and reforestation and is currently working on the idea of a Forest Hub to connect, support, strengthen, popularise and disseminate the initiatives taking place in the field of eco-agroforestery, woodland management and forest gardening. Contact lucy @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Julia Ankenbrand With an MA in European Ethnology, English Cultural Studies and Sociology Julia is interested in sustainability from very diverse angles. She has worked in different contexts ranging from creating exhibitions and museum education to costume making. At the Schumacher Institute she is now back in her original working field; researching and coordinating. She does that as a project assistant in the Converge Project as well as supporting project development which is widening and deepening her practice in sustainability. Contact julia @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |
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Michael Clinton Michael is a Research Director at the Schumacher Institute a role currently shared with Dr Jenneth Parker. Michael attained his MSc from Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University) in Aerospace Vehicle Design. He joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment and worked on Laser Radar systems for a number of years before switching to Operational Research. In this role he supported the MOD procurement programme in a decision support role. As such he worked on many complex programmes that required consideration of a wide range of factors, across a range of technical, operational and geopolitical disciplines, in essence applied Systems Thinking. Michael remained with the organisation through its development and eventual privatisation and the formation of QinetiQ. The increased commercialisation of the business exposing him to many aspects of business and commercial protect management. He also has a keen interest in economics and resource depletion which gives further depth to his Systems Thinking approach to problem solving. Contact michael @ schumacherinstitute.org.uk |