Rate My Professor Marion Jay

Dr. Marion Jay is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems at the University of Göttingen, where she joined in early 2023. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. Marion Jay studied forestry and environmental sciences in France and Germany. She holds a PhD from the forest and environmental policy lab at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. During and after her doctoral studies, she worked on urban forests, values, and ecosystem services at Freiburg University. She subsequently joined adelphi, a Berlin-based environmental policy consultancy, where she helped establish the emerging biodiversity department and co-led it for nearly five years. In research and consultancy projects for European and German public authorities, she addressed land use conflicts and the implementation of EU nature conservation policies.

Her research focuses on biodiversity inside and outside protected areas, working closely with stakeholders in agricultural, forest, and urban landscapes. She employs social science methodologies and transdisciplinary tools to analyze social-ecological systems, identify conflicts, and pinpoint leverage points for biodiversity conservation. She is currently involved in the RECONNECT project, funded through the European Biodiversity Partnership BiodivERsA+, which examines social and ecological fragmentations of protected areas in multifunctional landscapes across sites in France, Germany, South Africa, and Sweden. The project combines governance and institutional analysis, biodiversity and ecosystem service modelling, participatory value mapping, and geo-design stakeholder processes.