Academic controversies
He has been involved in a number of academic controversies, and these debates have been of a methodological and substantive nature. They include: * He has disagreed with the Wilkinson inequality hypothesis that within country differences in health and mortality are driven by invidious comparison; instead arguing that there is a materialist argument based on poverty even in advanced economies.{{cite journal , doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.026 , pmid=19095338 , title=Global variations in health: Evaluating Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis using the World Values Survey , journal=Social Science & Medicine , volume=68 , issue=4 , pages=643–53 , year=2009 , last1=Jen , first1=Min Hua , last2=Jones , first2=Kelvyn , last3=Johnston , first3=Ron The argument is based on critique of Wilkinson's use of aggregate data and supports the ideas of Hugh Gravelle that if there is a non-linear individual relationship between income and ill-health then the aggregate relationship will necessarily involve the 'spread' (standard deviation) of country income that is inequality.{{cite journal , doi=10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.04.005 , pmid=18514014 , title=Compositional and contextual approaches to the study of health behaviour and outcomes: Using multi-level modelling to evaluate Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis , journal=Health & Place , volume=15 , issue=1 , pages=198–203 , year=2009 , last1=Jen , first1=Min Hua , last2=Jones , first2=Kelvyn , last3=Johnston , first3=Ron * He has argued againstAcademic work and projects
He researches in three main areas: * Geography of health: particularly geographical inequalities in mortality in advanced economies; * Research design: especially to develop evidence-based research in non-experimental, observational studies; * Realistically complex modelling: this research work focuses on the quantitative analysis of social-science data with complex structure, particularly when there are many levels of analysis such as panels, spatial series, and space-time series. His substantive and methodological work is wide-ranging and includes the following bodies of work: Substantive research * Geography of health * Macro determinants of health; * Multilevel modelling of health-related behaviors and outcomes * Multilevel modelling of mental health outcomes * Multilevel modelling of social capital, trust and volunteering * Multilevel modelling of voting behaviors and electoral outcomes * Forecasting geographical variations in the EU referendum * Multilevel modelling of socio-demographic variation in China * Modelling segregation: applying the new methodologies * Multilevel modelling of property(house) prices * Multilevel modelling of sporting outcomes Methodological research * Quantitative geography * Statistical data analysis in the social sciences * Multilevel modelling: scope, models and issues * Multilevel analysis, software, manuals and data * Fixed and Random effects analysis * Modelling nationally predicting locally (multilevel regression with post stratification) * Modelling segregation: methodological developments; this includes work on theAccess to publications and citations
* A Google Scholar profile gives up-to-date citation of his work; in 2022 his H-index score was 64. * He makes available much of his academic output on Research Gate, where he frequently answers questions on statistical (especially multilevel) modeling.; he has also explained his reasons for doing so in answer to a question on the site As of February 2022, he has over 1.2 million 'reads' on Research Gate and this is accruing at a rate of around 3,000 per week. * There are also aPosts held
University of Newcastle, 1978-1979, Lecturer in Geography,;According to entry inRecognition and awards
The election to a Fellowship of the British Academy was in 2016 and he was elected both to Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics (Section 4) and to Anthropology and Geography (Section 3)). The citation on election reads ‘Kelvyn Jones is an internationally leading quantitative social scientist. He has made major contributions to the analysis and interpretation of large and complex data sets in a broad field of quantitative social sciences, including geography, and is extremely active in promoting training in quantitative analysis in the social sciences.” He is also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, having been elected in 2013, and an Academician of the Social Sciences, elected in 2008. He was awarded thePostgraduate teaching and supervision
He has taught a course on multilevel modeling annually at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data analysis since 1992 and is a long term contributor to the Masters in Statistics and the Masters in Quantitative Social Science at the Leuven Statistics Research Centre. He also two led two five-day workshops (2009 and 2011) in Pennsylvania State University and UC Santa Barbara under the aegis of GISpopsci.org. He has supervised a number of students for their PhD; they include: * Andrew Clegg * Craig Duncan * Nina Bullen * SV Subramanian * Sarah Johns * Katherine French * Min-Hua Jen * Beatriz Caicedo Velasquez * Caroline Wright- Commendations for PhD thesis and viva in the academic year 2014-15 * Zhixin 'Frank' Feng -winner of the 2013 Faculty Research Prize * Andrew Bell * Dewi Owen * Yingyu Feng * Gwilym Owen- Winner of the Faculty prize for Best Doctoral Research Thesis 2016/17 * Gareth Griffith, * Lucy PriorMajor publications
Book length publications include: * Jones, Kelvyn and Moon, Graham (1987). Health, disease and society: a critical medical geography, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London. * Jones Kelvyn (1991). Multi-level Models for Geographical Research, Environmental Publications, Norwich. * Moon, Graham; Gould, Myles; Jones, Kelvyn et al. (2000). Epidemiology, Open University Press, Buckingham. * Mohan, John; Barnard, Steve; Jones, Kelvyn and Twigg, Lizbeth (2004). Social capital, place and health: creating, validating and applying small-area indicators in the modelling of health outcomes, Health Development Agency. * Jones, Kelvyn and Subramanian, SV (2014). Developing multilevel models for analysing contextuality, heterogeneity and change using MLwiN, Volume 1, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. * Jones, Kelvyn and Subramanian, SV (2013). Developing multilevel models for analysing contextuality, heterogeneity and change using MLwiN, Volume 2, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.Developing multilevel models for analysing contextuality, heterogeneity and change: Complete Volume 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260772180 {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915203749/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260772180 , date=2017-09-15Personal life
He married Christina Thrush in 1979; Tina died of Breast Cancer in 2020. His hobbies are listening to classical music, especially opera and song; gardening and 'allotmenteering', cooking, wine tasting and watching Bristol Rugby. They have a son, Alex, born in 1987 who is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.{{Cite web, url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/kelvyn-jones, title=Kelvyn Jones, website=University of Bristol, access-date=2021-01-31, archive-date=2020-10-31, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031171843/https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/kelvyn-jones, url-status=liveReferences
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