2023 Taipei Zoo Planning and Design Conference. Jon was a (virtual) keynote speaker, presenting his paper “The Unzoo Sanctuary, a Case-Study.”

2023 MoonJam: Enrichment and welfare for nocturnal animals. Jon advised Fiona French, Tiff Leek, and colleagues on the recently held computer-interactive online brainstorming workshop and will assist with publishing the results.

2023 Enhancing Visitor - Animal Interactions in the Modern Zoo: a designer’s perspective. Jon wrote this Chapter 5 in the book “Human Animal Interactions in the Modern Zoo: Merging Science and Practice” Edited by Eduardo Fernandez & Sally L. Sherwen. It is in...

2023 Facility Design for Disabled and Aging Wild Animals. Jon wrote this Chapter 6 in the book “Optimal Welfare of Aging Wild Animals in Human Care” in 2021 and the book is finally available from Springer-Nature Publishers.

2023 How Do we Plan for the Zoo Exhibit of the Future? This paper, a collaboration between Jon, Eduardo Fernandez, and James Brereton, was published in October 2023 by Applied Animal Behaviour Science and by years-end already had over one thousand reads on Research...

2021 ReptileJam: Designing Enrichment for Reptiles in Captivity. Jon advised Fiona French and Leah Williams in planning and facilitating this computer-interactive online brainstorming workshop with published results.

2020-2021. Community-Based Eco-Planning in High Dry Regions-Parts 1&2. Jon was invited by the editor of the Indian Journal of Landscape Architecture to contribute two articles on his work consulting with the United Nations Environment Programme in Afghanistan from...

2022 Jon’s zoo design and animal management papers are being widely read. On 16 December ResearchGate, a European networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, recorded 30,000 “reads” of Jon’s papers, including 9,716 “reads” of Design and Perception,...

Jon was interviewed by BBC producer Daniel Nills Roberts for over an hour for an upcoming feature on the morality of zoos. It was a wide-ranging discussion, one of four interviews to be concentrated into a single ten-minute feature in the BBC IDEA series.

Animal Welfare through Competence (WtC) is a novel animal management and facility design concept Jon developed for zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. The idea is that with excellent health care and diet zoo animals may appear happy and healthy. But can they do anything...

In June Jon delivered an hour-long webinar on zoo design trends to the Practical Animal Welfare Science (PAWS) webinar platform. Also, in June Jon collaborated with colleague Sabrina Brando to deliver a virtual lecture on improving animal welfare through integrated...

2020:   Jon submitted a manuscript for peer review and publication titled Facility design for disabled and aging wild animals scheduled to appear as a chapter in Optimal Welfare of Aging Wild Animals in Human Care, Dr Sarah Chapman and Sabrina Brando, Editors. Jon...

2020: In November Jon was a virtual keynote speaker for the Visual ACT ‘20 Conference of the Thai Architectural Foundation in Bangkok on subjects ranging from the impact of culture on personal space requirements in urban building codes to proven advantages of...

2020: In September Jon participated in an in-depth virtual interview by Prof Robert Young of Salford University UK about zoo design for improved animal welfare.

2020: Jon co-authored with Dr Julia Hoy a paper titled Choice, Control and Computers: Empowering Wildlife in Human Care. This is available in a special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction titled Animal Centred Computing: Enriching the lives of animals...