Jasper is an interdisciplinary researcher in sustainable development, conservation and environmental management issues with a specialisation in ecological economics and citizen and stakeholder deliberation. His main research interest is in people’s values around nature. He enjoys taking a broad view of the notion of value and values, looking through the lenses of economics, ecology, ethics, psychology and spiritual practice, and have a particular interest in how social processes shape values and in ways we can integrate economic and deliberative methodologies to better incorporate shared values of nature into decision-making. He also works more broadly on new economics approaches, including in the context of economic recovery from COVID.

Jasper has most recently worked at the University of York, Environment Department as Reader in Deliberative Ecological Economics, where I was programme leader for the MSc in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management. He previously worked as Principal Investigator at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) where he lead the Laurence Mee Centre for Society and the Sea, and has lectured at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Leicester and Aberdeen. He now run Ecologos, an independent research and consultancy company, work as a psycho-spiritual counsellor being ordained as Interfaith Minister by the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and enjoy landscape photography.