Dr Rowan Jackson
Lecturer in Planetary Health and Food Systems
- Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: Rowan.Jackson@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Rowan Jackson joined GAAFS from the School of Geosciences in April 2023, and will be leading our new MSc in Planetary Health in collaboration with the Usher Institute and EFI. He will also co-direct the MSc in Sustainable Lands and Cities in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Landscape and EFI. Both MSc programmes will start in September 2023. He previously directed the MSc Environmental Sustainability programme in the School of GeoSciences and has teaching experience across a wide range of topics ranging from sustainable development policy and practice to climate change adaptation and environmental history.
Rowan’s research uses environmental, historical, and archaeological records to understand how human societies have responded to environmental and climate stress. His research primarily focuses on social-ecological changes on recently colonised island environments in the North Atlantic since the Viking Age (c. 793 – 1066), with a particular focus on Greenland and Iceland in the High and Late Medieval Periods (c. 870 – 1500 AD). Using multiple datasets to reconstruct these deep-time records, his research also identifies the role of historical data for understanding environmental baselines and human vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the present.
To highlight the importance of environmental and cultural histories and to conserve it for future generations, Rowan actively works to promote international collaborations to support the protection and conservation of physical and intangible cultural heritage.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes