Gavin Jones

Biography

Gavin joined the University of Cumbria in 2019. He is the Programme Leader for the Online Project Management courses and leads on: Project Management Methodologies, Management and Control of Projects, and Leadership and Communications.

Gavin has a breadth of industry experience from large Financial Services and Telecommunications project implementations to Economic Development and Business Advisory experience in Local Government. He has also set up and run an e-Commerce business.

He has an interest in sustainability, particularly woodland / rewilding projects. Gavin is also interested in intervention / innovation programmes that tackle regional economic inequalities.

Qualifications and memberships

Master of Laws (Distinction) in e-Commerce and Telecommunications Law

Bachelor of Commerce and Administration

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry)

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching for Higher Education

FHEA

Academic and research interests

Rewilding and woodland projects

Regional Economic Development

Publications

Jones, G. (2003) Failings in the Treatment of Electronic Signatures, Hertfordshire Law Journal 1(1), pp. 101 – 106.

Jones, G. (2004) Trusted? Third? Parties, Hertfordshire Law Journal 2(1), pp. 62 – 66.

Jones, G. and Murphy, D. F. (2024) ‘The paradox of rewilding projects: exploring rewilding as projects, programs or portfolios’, 11th Annual University of Maryland PM Symposium, 18 – 19 April 2024. Available at: https://pmsymposium.umd.edu/pm2024/session/the-paradox-of-rewilding-projects-jones/

Jones, G. W. and Murphy, D. F. (2025). Landscape Scale Rewilding Project Management: Exploring rewilding as a multi-project environment; PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue I, January. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pmwj148-Jan2025-Jones-Murphy-landscape-scale-rewilding-project-management.pdf

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