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)

Research activity per year

Student theses

11 results
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Fewer Credits, More Credibility: jurisdictional baselines in REDD+ provide more conservative, and appropriate, estimates of avoided deforestation.
Pankhurst, L. (Author), Jones, J. (Supervisor), Warren-Thomas, E. (Supervisor) & Devenish, K. (Supervisor), 15 Sept 2025
Student thesis: Masters by Research
The vulnerability of red colobus monkeys to anthropogenic threats
Melvin, Z. (Author), Jones, J. (Supervisor), Georgiev, A. (Supervisor), Blount, J. (Supervisor) & Davenport, T. (Supervisor), 9 Apr 2024
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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The environmental trade-offs of mining in a biodiversity hotspot
Devenish, K. (Author), Willcock, S. (Supervisor), Jones, J. (Supervisor) & Goodenough, K. (Supervisor), 21 Mar 2024
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Access to nature and its impact on peoples' wellbeing
Dolan, R. (Author), Willcock, S. (Supervisor), Jones, J. (Supervisor) & Bullock, J. (Supervisor), 4 Mar 2024
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Understanding rule-breaking in conservation
Ibbett, H. (Author), St John, F. (Supervisor) & Jones, J. (Supervisor), 22 Nov 2022
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Exploring real and hypothetical impacts of community-based conservation interventions
Lewis, A. R. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Gibbons, J. M. (Supervisor) & Young, R. P. (Supervisor), 25 Feb 2019
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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The use of Randomised Control Trials in evaluating conservation interventions/ the case of Watershared in the Bolivian Andes
Pynegar, E. L. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Gibbons, J. (Supervisor) & Asquith, N. (Supervisor), Mar 2018
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Impacts of Community Forest Management and strictly protected areas on deforestation and human well-being in Madagascar
Rasolofoson, R. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Larsen, H. O. (Supervisor) & Smith-Hall, C. (Supervisor), Jan 2016
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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The delivery of biodiversity benefits in the REDD+ climate mechanism
Murray, J. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor) & Secco, L. (Supervisor), Jan 2015
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Using local informant data and boat-based surveys to improve knowledge on the status of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
Richman, N. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Jan 2015
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Assessing and sentencing illegal behaviours in conservation
St John, F. A. V. (Author), Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Jan 2012
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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Julia Patricia Gordon Jones

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