Alastair McIntosh

Glasgow

Alastair grew up and was educated on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Together with four years in the 1970-80s working with appropriate technology in Papua New Guinea, his background gave him a grounding that has shaped his life’s work. Much of this has focused on land reform, community empowerment and the psychology and even spirituality of the wider human condition. Since 1996, his work has been mainly freelance as a human ecologist, writer, speaker, researcher and activist. Alastair is a Quaker, an honorary senior research fellow (honorary professor) in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and as a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology was Scotland’s first professor of human ecology at the University of Strathclyde. He has also held honorary fellowships at the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages (University of Ulster), the School of Divinity (University of Edinburgh) and the Schumacher Society.