Professor Jonathan Heron
About
Jonathan is Director of Engagement at IATL and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 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 is Co-Chair of the WIHEA/WIE Pedagogies of Public & Community Engagement Learning Circle.
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 higher education practice and pedagogy, both as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, and has particular interests in creative learning, interdisciplinary teaching and systems thinking.
Modules
Applied Imagination & Creative PracticeLink opens in a new window
Engagement & Participatory PracticeLink opens in a new window