Key Terms: biodiversity, sustainability, conservation, science, policy relations, geography, environmental governance, political ecology, science and technology studies, sustainability science, organizational studies, interdisciplinary environmental sciences, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Conservation, Climate Systems, Economy, Society: Transformations, Justice, Environmental Interactions, Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics, Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Jasper joined the School in May 2019 supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Cambridge (King's College); an MSc in Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society awarded jointly by Imperial College, London, and University College London; as well as a BSc in Zoology and a Diploma in Creative Arts (Media) from the University of Melbourne. Jasper has previously been a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
In addition to academic work, Jasper has five years of experience working in natural history documentary production for the BBC and National Geographic, as director, cameraman, and researcher across locations on land and underwater. He has also spent time as an intern at the United Nations Environment Programme in Germany, as a tour guide on the Great Barrier Reef, and as an animal keeper of birds, reptiles, and insects.
Jasper's research interests encompass science and policy relations, the geographies of science and expertise, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on exploring these issues for biodiversity. Jasper's research draws from and contributes to a broad range of scholarly traditions, including political ecology, science and technology studies, sustainability science, organizational studies, and the interdisciplinary environmental sciences.
Jasper has been selected for the 2021 Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Leaders Scheme. As part of this, Jasper chairs a Working Group on Policy Engagement for Biodiversity that will support researchers involved in biodiversity-related research at Oxford to share experiences, identify opportunities, and build networks around policy engagement for biodiversity.