Research Interests

Sophie is a human geographer working on rural landscape change and governance. This includes research on:

1) Human-nature relations and environmental governance: ambitions for rewilding, innovative governance mechanisms - e.g payments for ecosystem services, community-led and participatory management - and the implications these approaches have.

2) Farming and agricultural change: farmer decision-making, learning and practise; impacts of policy transitions (e.g. Brexit); adoption of environmental management; co-operative behaviours.

3) Knowledge controversies: understanding different knowledge systems, and how stakeholders interact and negotiate strategies for rural and landscape futures.

Current/Recent Projects

Human-Nature Relations

Working with rewilding practitioners and stakeholders in Wales to evaluate current projects, assessing values, wellbeing, and processes of change.

https://www.cambrianwildwood.org/

http://www.summit2sea.wales/

Rewilding in a Changing Europe: Opportunities, Threats and Shifting Geographies of Land-Use https://rewildinglandscapes.wordpress.com/

Audio of me discussing a social-science perspective on rewilding, as part of the Zoological Society of London's podcast of rewilidng in a changing climate https://www.zsl.org/zsl-wild-science-podcast

 

Farming and Agricultural Change

Breaking-STEP - Breaking the Barriers to Soil Testing on Pastures, SARIC funded.

Fferm Ifan & Conwy Catchment North Wales funded through Defra SIP2 project http://www.siplatform.org.uk/farming-collaboration

Pontbren Project in Mid Wales, funded through Welsh Government http://gov.wales/funding/eu-funds/previous/programme-evaluation/pontbren-project/?lang=en

Food Values exploring innovate approaches to food education and communications https://foodvaluesblog.wordpress.com/ funded through Wales Rural Development Programme Supply Chain Efficiencies & ESRC Impact Accelerator Award

New directions in agri-environmental governance - Wales advisor on https://agrienvironmentalgovernance.wordpress.com/ 

Previous evaluations of agri-environmental development in Wales funded through:

Wales Nature Fund

Transatlantic Rural Research Network & Imperial College London http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/lifesciences/grandchallengesinecosystemsandtheenvironment/eventssummary/event_9-4-2015-14-45-14

Wales Rural Observatory http://www.walesruralobservatory.org.uk

 

Qualifications

2015 PGCTHE. Aberystwyth University

2011 PhD Geography: 'Negotiating Neoliberalism: Engaging Ecosystem Services'; University of Wales Aberystwyth, ESRC 1+3 funded.

2006 Practising Human Geography MA, University of Wales Aberystwyth, ESRC 1+3 funded.

2005 Geography BA, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UWA full scholarship.

s.wynne-jones@bangor.ac.uk

01248 382639

Room F24 Thoday Building

http://bangoruniversity.academia.edu/SophieWynneJones

twitter @SWynneJ

1) Human-nature relations and environmental governance: e.g. rewilding, payments for ecosystem services, community-led and participatory management. 2) Farming and agricultural change: farmer decision-making, learning and practise; impacts of policy transitions (e.g. Brexit); adoption of environmental management; co-operative behaviours. 3) Knowledge controversies: understanding different knowledge systems and how stakeholders interact.

2023

• Cyhoeddwyd“It's opened my eyes to what's out there”: How do nature-based interventions influence access to and perceptions of the natural environment?
  Gittins, H., Dandy, N., Wynne-Jones, S. & Morrison, V., 2023, Yn: Wellbeing, Space & Society. 4, 100125.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

• CyhoeddwydGoverning like a forest: achieving diachronic integrity or emergency carbon sequestration through post-Brexit forest policy?
  Wynne-Jones, S., Dandy, N., Bodner, T. & Healey, J., 3 Tach 2022, Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society. Attrop, A., McAreavey, R. & Heron, S. (gol.). Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Sustainability).
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffuRewilding: An emotional nature
  Wynne-Jones, S., 16 Meh 2022, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Area.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydRewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community.
  Mikołajczak, K., Jones, N., Sandom, C., Wynne-Jones, S., Beardsall, A., Burgelman, S., Ellam, L. & Wheeler, H., 1 Rhag 2022, Yn: People and Nature. 4, 6, t. 1435-1449
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydThe politics of the rural and relational values: Contested discourses of rural change and landscape futures in west wales
  Holmes, G., Clemoes, J., Wynne-Jones, S. & Marriot, K., 3 Gorff 2022, Yn: Geoforum. 133, t. 153-164
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2021

• CyhoeddwydGuiding principles for rewilding
  Carver, S., Convery, I., Hawkins, S., Beyers, R., Eagle, A., Kun, Z., Van Maanen, E., Cao, Y., Fisher, M., Edwards, S. R., Nelson, C., Gann, G. D., Shurter, S., Aguilar, K., Andrade, A., Ripple, W. J., Davis, J., Sinclair, A., Berkoff, M., Noss, R., Foreman, D., Pettersson, H., Root-Bernstein, M., Svenning, J-C., Taylor, P., Wynne-Jones, S., Featherstone, A. W., Flojgaard, C., Stanley-Price, M., Navarro, L. M., Aykroyd, T., Parfitt, A. & Soule, M., Rhag 2021, Yn: Conservation Biology. 35, 6, t. 1882-1893
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydIdentifying barriers to routine soil testing within beef and sheep farming systems
  Rhymes, J., Wynne-Jones, S., Williams, P., Harris, I., Rose, D., Chadwick, D. & Jones, D. L., 15 Rhag 2021, Yn: Geoderma. 404, 115298.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydImportance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy
  Arnott, D., Chadwick, D., Wynne-Jones, S., Dandy, N. & Jones, D. L., 1 Ebrill 2021, Yn: Journal of Rural Studies. 83, t. 1-10
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydVulnerability of British farms to post-Brexit subsidy removal, and implications for intensification, extensification and land sparing.
  Arnott, D., Chadwick, D., Wynne-Jones, S. & Jones, D. L., Awst 2021, Yn: Land Use Policy. 107, 104154.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2020

• CyhoeddwydAre policies for decentralised forest governance designed to achieve full devolution? Evidence from Eastern Africa
  Hockley, N., Magessa, K. & Wynne-Jones, S., 1 Maw 2020, Yn: International Forestry Review. 22, 1, t. 83-100
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydCollaboration for Sustainable Intensification: The Underpinning Role of Social Sustainability
  Wynne-Jones, S., Hyland, J., Williams, P. & Chadwick, D., Ion 2020, Yn: Sociologia Ruralis. 60, 1, t. 58-82 25 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydDoes Tanzanian participatory forest management policy achieve its governance objectives?
  Magessa, K., Wynne-Jones, S. & Hockley, N., Chwef 2020, Yn: Forest Policy and Economics. 111, February 2020, 102077.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydExploring perceptions of marine biosecurity interventions: insights from the commercial marina sector.
  Vye, S., Wynne-Jones, S., Masterson Algar, P. & Jenkins, S., Awst 2020, Yn: Marine Policy. 118, 104027.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydRewilding – Departures in Conservation Policy and Practice? An Evaluation of Developments in Britain
  Wynne-Jones, S., Strouts, G., O'Neil, C. & Sandom, C., Ebrill 2020, Yn: Conservation & Society. 18, 2, t. 89-102 14 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydWhat is rewilding, how should it be done, and why? A Q-method study of the views held by European rewilding advocates
  Holmes, G., Marriott, K., Briggs, C. & Wynne-Jones, S., Meh 2020, Yn: Conservation & Society. 18, 2, t. 77-88
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2019

• CyhoeddwydRewilding Forestry
  Dandy, N. & Wynne-Jones, S., Rhag 2019, Yn: Forest Policy and Economics. 109, 101996.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydRewilding a country: Britain as a study case
  Sandom, C. & Wynne-Jones, S., 28 Chwef 2019, Rewilding. Pettorelli, N., Durant, S. & DuToit, J. T. (gol.). Cambridge University Press, (Ecological Reviews).
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2018

• CyhoeddwydAbandoning or Reimagining a Cultural Heartland? Understanding and Responding to Rewilding Conflicts in Wales - the case of the Cambrian Wildwood.
  Wynne-Jones, S., Holmes, G. & Strouts, G., 1 Awst 2018, Yn: Environmental Values. 27, 4
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydAsian Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Challenges of the 2030 Agenda
  Buenavista, D. P., Wynne-Jones, S. & McDonald, M., 31 Rhag 2018, Yn: East Asian Community Review. 1, 3-4, t. 221-240
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydAssembling Payments for Ecosystem Services in Wales
  Wynne-Jones, S. & Vetter, T., 2018, Agri-Environmental Governance as an Assemblage. Forney, J., Rosin, C. & Campbell, H. (gol.). Routledge, t. 19-37 (Earthscan Food and Agriculture).
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

2017

• CyhoeddwydThe more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production
  Emery, S., Wynne-Jones, S. & Forney, J., Gorff 2017, Yn: Journal of Rural Studies. 53, t. 229-238
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Golygyddiad
• CyhoeddwydUnderstanding Farmer Co-operation: Exploring practices of social relatedness and emergent affects.
  Wynne-Jones, S., Gorff 2017, Yn: Journal of Rural Studies. 53, t. 259-268
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2016

• CyhoeddwydBeekeepers’ knowledges and participation in pollinator conservation policy
  Maderson, S. & Wynne-Jones, S., 25 Maw 2016, Yn: Journal of Rural Studies. 45, June 2016, t. 88-98
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydFlooding and media storms - controversies over farming and upland land-use in the UK.
  Wynne-Jones, S., 15 Rhag 2016, Yn: Land Use Policy. 58, December, t. 533–536 3 t., 58.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Sylw/Dadl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2014

• CyhoeddwydReading for difference’ with Payments for Ecosystem Services in Wales
  Wynne-Jones, S., 10 Maw 2014, Yn: Critical Policy Studies. 8, 2, t. 148-164
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

• Welsh Government Environment and Rural Affairs ESRC Policy Fellowship

  01/01/2022 – 31/07/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• Summit to Sea / O’r Mynydd i’r Môr Project

  01/08/2019 – 31/01/2021 (Wedi gorffen)

• Rewilding in a changing Europe: opportunities, threats and shifting geographies of land-use

  01/05/2017 – 01/08/2018 (Wedi gorffen)

  Disgrifiad

  Rewilding has become a hot topic in recent years, sparking passionate debate across society. For many rewilding presents an exciting possibility to restore our environment and reconnect with the natural world. For others, it is more threatening – in terms of the potential impacts on agriculture and rural heritage. The conference provided an opportunity for academics and practitioners across Europe to come together to set a research agenda to evaluate the opportunities and threats that rewilding poses. These were connected to NRN LCEE priority themes by exploring how rewilding intersects with questions of sustainable land-use transition, food security, rural development and community resilience.

  Cysylltau:

  • https://rewildinglandscapes.wordpress.com/

• KESS II PhD project with Woodland Trust BUK292

  01/10/2016 – 31/01/2020 (Wedi gorffen)

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/environment-natural-resources-and-geography/students/gittins_heli.php.en