Professor Jonathan Hickman-Heron PFHEA
About
Jonathan is an interdisciplinary academic with a background in the arts and humanities. He was previously Head of Department at IATL (2018-23), a member of the University Education Executive (2020-22) and Chair of the ARC Interdisciplinary Working Group (2022-23). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and an Honorary Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy and the Warwick Institute of Engagement.
He was appointed as Research Associate to the CAPITAL Centre, working in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company (2007-10). He was Artistic Director of Fail Better Productions, an independent theatre company which he co-led for fifteen years with Nomi Everall. He co-founded the Beckett Laboratory at Trinity College Dublin with Nicholas Johnson and together they wrote Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices (2020) and co-edited special issues of the Journal of Beckett Studies on performance (23:1, 2014)Link opens in a new window and pedagogy (29:1, 2020)Link opens in a new window.
He has also published research in Open-Space Learning: A Study in Transdisciplinary Pedagogy (2011), Performing Early Modern Drama Today (2012), Shakespeare on the University Stage (2014), Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact (2018), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre (2022) and The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett (forthcoming).
His engagement work in the Medical Humanities has been widely disseminated across several projects: Beckett & Brain Science (AHRC, 2012Link opens in a new window), Beckett on the Wards (NHS, 2013Link opens in a new window), Modernism, Medicine & the Embodied Mind (AHRC, 2015Link opens in a new window) and Hearing the Voice (Wellcome, 2017Link opens in a new window). He regularly presents on educational leadership, both as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, and has particular interests in creative learning, interdisciplinary teaching and systems thinking.
He is IATL Director of Engagement and convenes Applied Imagination & Creative Practice.Link opens in a new window