Bangor International February 2015 Bangor ranked in Top 100 World International Universities
British Ecology Society Awards Bangor Lecturer breaking new ground in monitoring conservation outcomes as well as understanding incentives to conserveā.
Bangor University has been ranked 90th in the world and 38th in the UK in the latest āTHE 100 most international universities in the world 2015ā. The rankings have been based on the āinternational outlookā indicators which include, the percentage of international staļ¬, international student numbers, proportion of research papers published with co-authors from at least one other country.
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Dr Julia Jones, picture taken during ļ¬eldwork A lecturer at Bangor Universityās School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography has been awarded the prestigious British Ecological Societyās Foundersā Prize for 2014. On receiving the Award, which is awarded every two years to an outstanding young ecologist who is making a signiļ¬cant contribution towards the science of ecology, Dr Julia Jones was described as āan inspiration to young conservation ecologists, who has developed a novel and highly successful research programme which is
On receiving the Award, Julia Jones said: āIn my research I use methods and theory from a range of disciplines (including economics, education and psychology) and apply them to challenges in environmental management. However my disciplinary background and natural intellectual home is ecology, so to have this recognition from the British Ecological Society is a real honour.ā Julia is currently leading a project looking at how global ecosystem service schemes can best be designed to reduce poverty. This is a large consortium project funded by Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation. She has a new grant which uses a Randomised Control Trial of a water-based payment scheme in Bolivia to explore how such schemes can contribute to local welfare beneļ¬ts and broader environmental beneļ¬ts.
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