Role
Jonathan's role as Interim Head of Department for Social and Political Sciences is to provide academic leadership, strategic and operational management within the subject areas of Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Public Policy and Security Studies at undergraduate, postgraduate and commercial levels. His responsibilities encompass learning and teaching, scholarship and research, internationalisation activities together with a wider contribution to the civic mission of the Department, School, and University.
Career overview
Jonathan has over twenty-five years’ experience teaching and learning a wide variety of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the fields of Politics, Political Economy, Sociology, International Development, and International Relations. He has successfully supervised over 200 dissertation students in a variety of areas ranging from the ethics of political violence to the political economies of public health, from democracy and democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa to the politics of popular music from the Blues to Punk, Two Tone and beyond. He has supervised seven PhD’s to completion and examined a further nine.
Before his employment at NTU, Jonathan taught at Northampton, Warwick, and Staffordshire Universities. He earned his BA (Hons) from Staffordshire University and his MA and PhD in International Relations from Warwick University.
Research areas
Jonathan has published several articles, chapters, and other contributions.
Recent Publications:
- ‘Patient Safety, Global Governance and the Right to Health in Integrated Primary Health Care: A Case Study of Low Resource Setting Through the Lens of Decolonialisation’, co-authored with L. Gibson et al. in J. Tingle (ed.), Research Handbook of Patient Safety (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2023).
- ‘Global Knowledge Gaps in Equitable Delivery of Chronic Oedema Care: A Political Economy Case Study Analysis’, Lymphatic Research and Biology (co-authored with L. Gibson et al), 19 (5), 2021.
- ‘Designed to Fail? Revisiting Uganda’s Maternal Health Policies to Understand Policy Design Issues Underpinning Missed Targets for Reduction of Maternal Mortality Ratio: 2000-2015, International Journal of Health Policy and Management (co-authored with M. Mukuru et al), X(X), 2021.
- Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence (London Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
- ‘Cultures of Learning and Learning Culture: Socratic and Confucian Approaches to Teaching and Learning’, Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 4 (3), 2012.
His current research interests lie in the intersection between critical political economy and questions of public health.
External activity
Jonathan is an experienced External Examiner. He currently serves post-graduate provision at Staffordshire University and has previously worked with Leicester De Montfort University MA International Relations; BA Peace Studies and associated programmes at the University of Bradford; BA and MA International Relations at the University of Wales; and MA International Relations at Richmond American International University in London.
Collaborations
Jonathan is Steering Group member for the university’s recently established Eastern Africa Centre and Chair of the associated PhD training hub that includes partners in Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi:
Eastern Africa Centre (EAC) | Nottingham Trent University
He is working with colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, University of Birmingham, and Coventry University on a projected related to the international recruitment of nurses.
Press expertise
- National identity
- Religious identity
- Notions of belief and unbelief
- Political economy
- Youth culture
Course(s) I teach on
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Sociology
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/sociology