Paul Jepson Biography

Paul Jepson is course director of the MSc in Nature Society and in Environmental Policy. Prior to this appointment in January 2007 he held Senior Research Fellowships with the Environmental Change Institute and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School. Paul transferred into academia from a successful career in conservation management and policy. He has consulted for a wide range of inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations and was Indonesia Programme Coordinator for BirdLife International (1991-1997). He started his career as a local government countryside officer developing new urban conservation initiatives in Manchester and Shrewsbury (UK). His research interests span protected area planning wildlife trade conservation history attitudes values and practices media representations of conservation issues and the role accountability and legitimacy of conservation NGOs. Current Research: Conservation Governance Lab Paul leads an interdisciplinary research group working to generate richer conceptualizations of how conservation actors build extend and legitimate their influence. The identity of the Conservation Governance Lab is founded on the belief that important insights lie at the interfaces of the natural and social science and of theory and practice. To this end lab members collectively explore the efficacy of Human Geography theory and analytics for generating novel and useful insights on questions relating to conservation governance.

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