Dr Jocelyne Hughes

Researcher

Member of the Oxford Water Network

Academic profile

Before coming to the School of Geography and the Environment in 2017, Jocelyne spent a number of years in the University's Department for Continuing Education. Previous academic posts include a college lectureship in Physical Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford; Research fellow at University College London; University Lectureships at the University of Reading and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Jocelyne holds a degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in plant ecology from the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. She was Course Director of the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management until the end of 2020 and has been a Researcher from 2021 onwards. Jocelyne's research focuses on understanding and quantifying the ecology, hydrology and management of wetlands and freshwater ecosystems.

Current Research

Jocelyne has carried out field investigations in a diversity of freshwaters in Tunisia, Australia, Antarctica (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition), Guatemala, and the UK, in order to answer a range of research questions. Current projects are:

  • Marley Fen, Wytham Woods - from 2010 and ongoing.
  • Disentangling the triggers of sewage fungus in multi-stressed catchments with Wessex Water - 2021 onwards; Co-I with Michelle Jackson, Wessex Water-funded.
  • Cumulative impacts of multiple stressors: improving temporal and biological realism - 2021-24; Co-I with Michelle Jackson, NERC-funded.
  • Impacts of plastics on ecology: Modelling and distribution of plastics in the River Thames with a view to enhancing UK Policy - 2019-20; Strategic Priorities Fund with Paul Whitehead et al.

Teaching

Lead on the Water Quality module in the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management.

Supervise MSc and MPhil research projects.

Selected Publications

BOOK
Water Science, Policy, and Management: A Global Challenge
Authors
Dadson, S.J., Garrick, D.E., Penning-Rowsell, E.C., Hall, J.W., Hope, R. and Hughes, J. (eds.) (2019)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
ISBN:
9781119520603
Water Science, Policy, and Management: A Global Challenge
BOOK
Freshwater Ecology and Conservation: Approaches and Techniques
Authors
Hughes, J.M.R. (ed.) (2018)
Oxford University Press.
ISBN:
9780198766421
Freshwater Ecology and Conservation: Approaches and Techniques
Orr, J., Bussi, G., Hughes, J., Whitehead, P. and Jackson, M. (2024) Freshwater Biology, 69(3), pp. 435–449.
1613354 - Modelling the potential for local management pract...
Albini, D., Lester, L., Sanders, P., Hughes, J. and Jackson, M. (2023) Global Change Biology, 29(22), pp. 6415–6422.
1536936 - The combined effects of treated sewage discharge a...
Albini, D., Lester, L., Sanders, P., Hughes, J. and Jackson, M. (2023) Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(3).
1536937 - Early detection and environmental drivers of sewag...
Ibáñez, C., Caiola, N., Barquín, J., Belmar, O., Benito-Granell, X., Casals, F., Fennessy, S., Hughes, J., Palmer, M., Peñuelas, J., Romero, E., Sardans, J. and Williams, M. (2022) Global Change Biology, 29(5), pp. 1248–1266.
1304876 - Ecosystem-level effects of re-oligotrophication an...
Castro-Castellon, A., Horton, A., Hughes, J., Rampley, C., Jeffers, E., Bussi, G. and Whitehead, P. (2021) Science of the Total Environment, 816.
1212404 - Ecotoxicity of microplastics to freshwater biota: ...
Whitehead, P., Bussi, G., Hughes, J., Castro-Castellon, A., Norling, M., Jeffers, E., Rampley, C., Read, D. and Horton, A. (2021) Water (Switzerland), 13(6).
1172416 - Modelling microplastics in the river thames: Sourc...
Castro-Castellon, A., Hughes, J., Read, D., Azimi, Y., Chipps, M. and Hankins, N. (2021) Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(22), pp. 27731–27741.
1159531 - The role of rhizofiltration and allelopathy on the...
Dadson, S., Penning‐Rowsell, E., Garrick, D., Hope, R., Hall, J. and Hughes, J. (2019) in Water Science, Policy, and Management. Wiley, pp. 363–366.
1219086 - Charting the World's Water Future?
Hughes, J., Bond, H., Knight, C. and Stanley, K. (2019) in Water Science, Policy, and Management. Wiley, pp. 75–95.
1071544 - Challenges for Freshwater Ecosystems
Dadson, S., Garrick, D., Penning-Rowsell, E., Hall, J., Hope, R. and Hughes, J. (2019) Water science, policy and management: A global challenge, pp. 1–408.
1338568 - Water science, policy and management: A global cha...