Matt Jordon

Matt Jordon Contact: matthew.jordon@biodtp.ox.ac.uk Doctoral Student at the Doctoral Training Centre Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU

Education

• BA(Hons) in Biological Sciences, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 2015-2018
• BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, Linacre College, University of Oxford, 2018-present

Current Research Interests

• Sustainable livestock production
• Global food security
• Management of UK farmland to deliver so-called 'public goods'

Research Experience

• FHS Undergraduate Project - 2017
  • Investigated the effect of sheep and cattle treading on the ecosystem service of water flow regulation ecosystem from permanent pasture farmland
  • Supervisor: Professor Kathy Willis, Long-Term Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
  
  
• Research Assistant Internship - 2016
  • Assisted DPhil research into sexual selection, using Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) as a model
  • Awarded the David Kirby Memorial Fund Undergraduate Research Bursary to fund internship
  • Supervisor: Professor Tom Pizzari, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Conferences

• Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP), Oxford - November 2018

Field Trips

• Tropical Forest Ecology - Sabah, Malaysian Borneo - September 2017
• Plant Diveristy of an Oceanic Island - Tenerife, Canary Islands - May 2017