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Research Interests

Sophie is a human geographer working on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Environmental Governance. This includes research on:

1)ÌýNet Zero and Sustainable Agriculture: behavioural insights on farmer decision-making and practice; land-use policy and governance changes; collaborations and partnership.

3) Rural/Environmental Knowledge controversies: how different stakeholders interact and agree on appropriate strategies for landscape futures, including proposals for tree planting and rewilding.

2) Human-Nature relations: e.g. for rewilding; understanding their more-than-human geographies, socio-cultural underpinnings and political-ecological implications.

She has recently completed an ESRC funded Policy Fellowship with Welsh Government’s Strategic Evidence Unit for Climate Change and Rural Affairs on ‘Agricultural Behavioural Insight’ and is now co-leading the Net Zero Transition Thematic Group for the UKRI funded Rural Wales Local Policy Innovation Partnership.

She has previously served on the Royal Geographic Society's 'Participatory Geographies Research Group' - and has a longstanding commitment to public scholarship and participatory working.

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Current Projects

Governance and Policy

Rural Wales Local Policy Innovation Partnership Net Zero Transition Thematic Group co-lead. The LPIP is a three-year research partnership designed to connect researchers, stakeholders and communities in generating, sharing and applying evidence to enhance local policy and innovation for inclusive, sustainable growth in Rural Wales. ÌýThis is envisioned through the framework of the ‘wellbeing economy’, which prioritises an economy designed to deliver social justice for current and future generations on a healthy planet in which citizens are actively engaged in their communities.

The Supporting the Net Zero Transition Thematic GroupÌýfocuses on challenges for businesses, landowners and communities in rural Wales in negotiating the transition to a net zero economy and society. These include projected changes in rural land use and farming practices (e.g afforestation, increased renewable energy production, land management for ecosystem services), and associated shifts in the mode of income-generation in the rural economy, as well as prospective impacts on rural communities, businesses and service provision from the removal of carbon-based transport and energy. Opportunities for innovation to support sustainable behaviours and practices are also covered.

ESRC Funded Policy Fellowship with the Strategic Evidence Unit for Climate Change and Rural Affairs. Providing agricultural behavioural insight to support the net zero transition. This included research support for policy development on the Sustainable Land Management and Agriculture, specifically the Sustainable Farming Scheme and Soils Policy Statement. I also provided research support for Marine Policy on Coastal Community Capacity Building

Rewilding

Rewilding is a longstanding research interest, which I have published widely on. As a social scientist I am interested in the socio-cultural influences behind rewilding, as well as the reasons for conflict surrounding it. Most recently I have been working with the to develop their Guiding Principles for Rewilding . We also developed this short article to share some of our key learning on the social dimensions of rewilding. I discuss some of these points as part of the Zoological Society of London's podcasts on rewilding in a changing climateÌý

My work has particularly focused on the development and difficulties surrounding rewilding in a Welsh context, where I have worked with rewilding practitioners and stakeholders to evaluate current projects, assessing values, wellbeing, and processes of change. This includes projects which have evolved to take a different approach, whilst still adopting some core principles and inspiration from rewilding like and

I have also worked to bring academic insights and stakeholders together across Europe to explore the potential for rewilding through a Ser Cymru grant on ‘Rewilding in a Changing Europe: Opportunities, Threats and Shifting Geographies of Land-Use’Ìý

Sustainable Agriculture

Strategies for Circular Agriculture to reduce GHG emissions within and between farming systems (CircAgric-GHG) - CoI ERA-NET Cofund (SusAn, FACCE ERA-GAS, ICT-AGRI-FOOD and SusCrop) This project is designed to unravel mechanisms by which farming systems can enhance circularity, reduce GHG emissions, and provide ecosystem services at multiple scales. It involves 17 world-leading researchers from 8 countries with expertise in livestock, cropping systems, farm and landscape modelling, LCA and ecosystem services.Ìý The consortium will draw upon state-of-the-artknowledge, research methods and models to assess how circular practices can deliver sustainable food systems.

s.wynne-jones@bangor.ac.uk

01248 382639

Room F24 Thoday Building

twitter @SWynneJ

1) Net Zero and Sustainable Agriculture: behavioural insights on farmer decision-making and practice; land-use policy and governance changes; collaborations and partnership. 3) Rural/Environmental Knowledge controversies: how different stakeholders interact and agree on appropriate strategies for landscape futures, including proposals for tree planting and rewilding. 2) Human-Nature relations: e.g. for rewilding; understanding their more-than-human geographies, socio-cultural underpinnings and political-ecological implications.

2023

• Published
  Sanchez-Garcia, C., Button, E., Wynne-Jones, S., Porter, H., Rugg, I. & Hannam, J. A., 24 Jun 2023, In: Soil Security. 11, 100095.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Gittins, H., Dandy, N., Wynne-Jones, S. & Morrison, V., 2023, In: Wellbeing, Space & Society. 4, 100125.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  de Vito, L., Wynne-Jones, S., Heins, E. & Verfuerth, C., 16 Jun 2023, (Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy Working Papers).
  Research output: Working paper
• Published
  Hartfiel, N., Gittins, H., Morrison, V., Wynne-Jones, S., Edwards, R. T. & Dandy, N., 2 Aug 2023, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20, 15, 13 p., 6500.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Gittins, H., Dandy, N., Wynne-Jones, S. & Morrison, V., 1 Dec 2023, In: Wellbeing, Space & Society. 5, 100160.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., Dandy, N., Bodner, T. & Healey, J., 3 Nov 2022, Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society. Attrop, A., McAreavey, R. & Heron, S. (eds.). Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Sustainability).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• E-pub ahead of print
  Wynne-Jones, S., 16 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Area.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Mikołajczak, K., Jones, N., Sandom, C., Wynne-Jones, S., Beardsall, A., Burgelman, S., Ellam, L. & Wheeler, H., 1 Dec 2022, In: People and Nature. 4, 6, p. 1435-1449
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Holmes, G., Clemoes, J., Wynne-Jones, S. & Marriot, K., 3 Jul 2022, In: Geoforum. 133, p. 153-164
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• Published
  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. & 13 others, 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., Dec 2021, In: Conservation Biology. 35, 6, p. 1882-1893
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Rhymes, J., Wynne-Jones, S., Williams, P., Harris, I., Rose, D., Chadwick, D. & Jones, D. L., 15 Dec 2021, In: Geoderma. 404, 115298.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Arnott, D., Chadwick, D., Wynne-Jones, S., Dandy, N. & Jones, D. L., 1 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Rural Studies. 83, p. 1-10
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Arnott, D., Chadwick, D., Wynne-Jones, S. & Jones, D. L., Aug 2021, In: Land Use Policy. 107, 104154.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• Published
  Hockley, N., Magessa, K. & Wynne-Jones, S., 1 Mar 2020, In: International Forestry Review. 22, 1, p. 83-100
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., Hyland, J., Williams, P. & Chadwick, D., Jan 2020, In: Sociologia Ruralis. 60, 1, p. 58-82 25 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Magessa, K., Wynne-Jones, S. & Hockley, N., Feb 2020, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 111, February 2020, 102077.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Vye, S., Wynne-Jones, S., Masterson Algar, P. & Jenkins, S., Aug 2020, In: Marine Policy. 118, 104027.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., Strouts, G., O'Neil, C. & Sandom, C., Apr 2020, In: Conservation & Society. 18, 2, p. 89-102 14 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Holmes, G., Marriott, K., Briggs, C. & Wynne-Jones, S., Jun 2020, In: Conservation & Society. 18, 2, p. 77-88
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• Published
  Sandom, C. & Wynne-Jones, S., 28 Feb 2019, Rewilding. Pettorelli, N., Durant, S. & DuToit , J. T. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, (Ecological Reviews).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Dandy, N. & Wynne-Jones, S., Dec 2019, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 109, 101996.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., Holmes, G. & Strouts, G., 1 Aug 2018, In: Environmental Values. 27, 4
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Buenavista, D. P., Wynne-Jones, S. & McDonald, M., 31 Dec 2018, In: East Asian Community Review. 1, 3-4, p. 221-240
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S. & Vetter, T., 2018, Agri-Environmental Governance as an Assemblage. Forney, J., Rosin, C. & Campbell, H. (eds.). Routledge, p. 19-37 (Earthscan Food and Agriculture).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2017

• Published
  Emery, S., Wynne-Jones, S. & Forney, J., Jul 2017, In: Journal of Rural Studies. 53, p. 229-238
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., Jul 2017, In: Journal of Rural Studies. 53, p. 259-268
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

• Published
  Maderson, S. & Wynne-Jones, S., 25 Mar 2016, In: Journal of Rural Studies. 45, June 2016, p. 88-98
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., 15 Dec 2016, In: Land Use Policy. 58, December, p. 533–536 3 p., 58.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

2014

• Published
  Wynne-Jones, S., 10 Mar 2014, In: Critical Policy Studies. 8, 2, p. 148-164
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 01/01/2024 – 15/01/2027 (Active)

• 01/01/2022 – 24/04/2024 (Finished)

• 01/08/2019 – 31/01/2021 (Finished)

• 01/05/2017 – 01/08/2018 (Finished)

  Description

  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.

  Links:

• 01/10/2016 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

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