Our People
Schumacher Wild Team
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Alice Oswald
CORE FACULTY
Alice Oswald studied Classics at Oxford and then trained as a gardener. She co-led MA poetics of Imagination at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. Read More…
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Dr Emma Kidd
CORE FACULTY
Emma focusses on meta-design as a practice that fosters awareness of the interconnectedness between being, knowing, and doing. She co-led the Ecological Design Thinking program at Schumacher College. Read More…
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Georgina Campbell
DESIGN & COMMUNICATIONS
Georgina is a designer, facilitator, and researcher whose work is rooted in emergent processes, exploring how mindsets shape the worlds we create. She is a recent graduate of Schumacher College with an MA in Ecological Design Thinking. Read More…
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Jay Tompt
CORE FACULTY
Jay is a co-founder of several place-based regenerative economics initiatives. He led the MA Regenerative Economics program at Schumacher College and is also an associate lecturer in economics at Plymouth University. Read More…
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Dr Mona Nasseri
CORE FACULTY
Mona as a researcher, has been collaborating with interdisciplinary and international research teams on various participatory projects. She led the MA Ecological Design Thinking programme at Schumacher College and served as the Head of Research as well. Read More…
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Dr Rachel Sweeney
CORE FACULTY
Rachel is a practicing movement artist, her research focuses on transdisciplinary approaches to decolonizing body-place relationships, creatively engaging with cultural heritage, and exploring sustainability discourses. She led the MA Movement, Mind, and Ecology programme at Schumacher College. Read More…
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Professor Roberto Fraquelli
CORE FACULTY
Roberto designs interactive products, spaces and experiences that allow participants to tune into their innermost curiosity and creativity. He co-led MA Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. Read More…
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Sarah Hawkins
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Sarah is a regular guest lecturer at Ravensbourne University, acting as a bridge between regenerative and mainstream education, and has appeared as a speaker and workshop facilitator at The RSA, Civic Square and The House of Hackney. Read More…
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Tamsin Treleaven
ADMINISTRATION
Tamsin has over 15 years experience of working in Higher Education Administration, the last 10 years of which have been at Schumacher College as Senior Administrator leading the Taught Programmes Administration Team. Prior to this she managed front of house teams at Historic Royal Palaces and the Museum of London. Read More…
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Dr Valentin Gerlier
CORE FACULTY
Dr Valentin Gerlier, scholar, songwriter, and musician, led the MA Poetics of Imagination programme at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. He is also a Tutor and academic board member at the Temenos Academy, a Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge, and a Visiting Lecturer at several institutions. Read More…
Schumacher Wild Guests
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Dr Andy Lecture
Andy led MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College and Andy has doctorates in Ecology (Oxford University – studying patterns of distribution of mammals at the continental level) and in the Study of Religion (King Alfred’s College, Winchester – researching bardic performance within contemporary Druidry and radical environmental protest movements). Read More…
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Christian Felber
Christian Felber is a writer, university lecturer, initiator of the “Economy for the Common Good“ and the “Cooperative for the Common Good“. Read More…
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Emma Bush
Emma works in the field art and ecology making performance, site-specific walks, writing and workshops. Emma’s practice maps processes of exchange between ourselves and others, including animals, weather systems, oceans, forests, villages, cities, countries. Read More…
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Dr Iain McGilchrist
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London.
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June Mitchell
June Mitchell follows the Plum Village tradition, founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She teaches 'Way of the Heart', a Qi Kong exercise with a long light bamboo stick, which she learnt at the monastery in France. She also guides walking and sitting meditation and deep relaxation. She taught at Schumacher College and Forty Two Acres.
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Dr Martin Shaw
Dr Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer, and Christian thinker. He founded the MA Myth and Ecology and MA Poetics of Imagination programmes at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. Read More…
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Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is the Founder of Schumacher College in the United Kingdom. He was Editor of Resurgence magazine for 40 years. Read More…
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Toomas Trapido
Toomas is mostly an educator, facilitator and organizer, but also an author. He has published a book “Stories That Create” and has launched his own video and podcast channels. Read More…