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Jack Reed is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded Nature Recovery and Regional Development (NaRReD) project. He is affiliated with the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) in Penryn and also works in the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) in Exeter.

In the NaRReD project, Jack's research is collaboratively engaging with councils in Britain's Leading Edge (BLE). The focus of this partnership is to measure and track the impact of nature recovery on local economies and scale this up for wider learning and policy development. You can find out more about the NaRReD project by visiting the website.

Jack's previous research focused on the relationships between networked spaces, young people, and nature connectedness. In particular, his work has assessed how young people construct their understandings and interpretations of nature in spaces such as TikTok, Minecraft, and Netflix. In 2023, Jack completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a thesis titled "From virtual worlds to the Outward Bound Trust: A study of contemporary residential outdoor adventurous education in postdigital space". Jack's full PhD thesis may be accessed here.

Selected publications

Reed, J., Beames, S. K., & Macleod, G. (2025). Young people's networked constructions of nature: Evidence from a qualitative multiple case study in the United Kingdom. People and Nature, 1- 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10781.

Reed, J., & Dunn, C. (2024). Postdigital young people’s rights: A critical perspective on the UK Government’s guidance to ban phones in England’s schools. Postdigital Science and Education, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00464-6.

Reed, J. (2024). Instructor perspectives on mobile technologies and social media in practice: Findings from the United Kingdom's Outward Bound Trust. Journal of Experiential Education, 47(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259231186774.

A fill list of Jack's publications may be found through his ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6701-6531

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