Academic employment (selection)
2022-now – Professorial Research Fellow in Deliberative Ecological Economics, Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University
Jan 2012 – now – Director, Ecologos Research Ltd.
2020 – 2021 – Reader in Deliberative Ecological Economics, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York.
2018 – 2020 – Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Deliberative Ecological Economics, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York.
2014 – 2018 – Principal Investigator and lecturer (Assistant Professor), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
2014 – 2018 – Visiting lecturer, University of Leicester (Department of Geography)
2013 – 2018 – Visiting lecturer, University of Edinburgh (School of Geosciences)
2015-2010 – Visiting lecturer, Scottish Rural University College (SRUC)
2012 – 2014 Project manager & Principal Investigator UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on, University of Aberdeen (School of Biological & Environmental Sciences)
2012 – 2013 – Visiting lecturer, University of St Andrews (Department of Geography)
2011 – 2012 – Research assistant, University of St Andrews (Department of Geography)
2010 –2012 – Teaching assistant, University of Aberdeen (School of Biological & Environmental Sciences)
Honorary and elected positions
- 2021 – now – Honorary Fellow, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York.
- 2018 – 2020 – Board member, International Society for Ecological Economics
- 2012 – 2021 – Board member and Chair of Publications, European Society for Ecological Economics
- 2015 – 2018 – Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh (Geosciences)
- 2014 – 2017 – Adjunct lecturer, University of New England, Australia (Business)
- 2011 – 2013 – Member of Senate, University of Aberdeen
Education and qualifications
2010 – 2014 PhD ‘Integrating monetary and non-monetary approaches to assessing shared, plural and cultural values of ecosystem services’, University of Aberdeen (NERC funded)
2013 – Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Institute
2007-2010 – Aberystwyth University, BSc Countryside Conservation (honours, 1stclass). Honours dissertation: ‘Values of the environment in Kahua, the Solomon Islands and the importance of deliberation in valuing ecosystem services in developing countries’.
2006 –Kingston Maurward College, NVQ (Level 3) Sustainable Land Use and Permaculture Design