Julia Patricia Gordon Jones

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I have supervised 15 PhDs to completion. These students worked on a range of topics from REDD+ implementation in Indonesia, to evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions in Madagascar and Bolivia. They were funded by a variety of sources including NERC, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU Erasmus Mundus programme known as FONASO, and Bangor University. I don't currently have funding for PhD projects but if you identify a potential funding source I would be delighted to help suitable students develop their proposal. I am particularly interested in supervising projects on conservation effectiveness and applying causal inference to conservation impact evaluation, forest conservation, interactions between local people (especially on the forest frontier) and conservation, community forest management, links between business and biodiversity (especially the mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity offsets), mining and conservation.

Former students:
Matthew Somerville (with E.J. Milner-Gulland, Imperial College London)
Aidan Keane (with E.J. Milner-Gulland, Imperial College London)
Andrea Wallace (with E.J. Milner-Gulland, Imperial College London)
Freya St John (with Gareth Edwards-Jones, Bangor University)
Sophie Williams (with James Gibbons, Bangor University)
Nadia Richman-Dewhurst (with Sam Turvey, Zoological Society of London)
Ranaivo Rasolofoson (with Helle Overgaard-Larsen, University of Copenhagen)
Josil Murray (with Laura Secco, University of Padua)
Edwin Pynegar (with James Gibbons, Bangor University)
Amy (Spike) Lewis (with James Gibbons Bangor University)
Harriet Ibbett (with Freya St John, Bangor University)
Zoe Melvin (with Alex Georgiev, Bangor University)
Rachel Dolan (with Simon Willcock, Bangor University)
Katie Devenish (with Simon Willcock, Bangor University, and Kathryn Goodenough, British Geological Survey)