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Jonathan is Director of Engagement at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) and an Honorary Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement. He has held a number of university roles including Chair of the ARC Interdisciplinary Working Group (2022-23), University Education Executive member (2020-22) and Head of Department (2018-23). In 2020, he was awarded his personal chair for sustained leadership in education and scholarship.

He was appointed as Research Associate to the CAPITAL Centre in 2007, working in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. With Dr Nicholas Johnson, he co-founded the Beckett Laboratory at Trinity College Dublin and guest edited 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 published work in Open-Space Learning (2011), Performing Early Modern Drama Today (2012), Shakespeare on the University Stage (2014), Performance as Research (2018), Experimental Beckett (2020), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre (2022) and The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett (forthcoming).

His engagement practice in the Medical Humanities has been widely disseminated: 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 has a background in drama and theatre education, creative learning and directing for the stage.