Professor Kelvyn Jones CGeog

Biography

Kelvyn is Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at University of Bristol. He has a BSc in Geography and a PhD in Geographical variations in mortality: an exploratory approach, both from University of Southampton. Kelvyn’s research interests focus on the geography of health, variations in mortality and morbidity and questions concerning how place characteristics interact with individual factors in producing ill-health. Kelvyn has two funded research projects at present; one funded by the Health Education Authority and the other by Wellcome Trust. In addition to his work at Bristol, Kelvyn has also been visiting professor at METHODOS, University of Louvian, Belgium and a visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit Brussel.