Neal Hockley

Neal Hockley is a Senior Lecturer in Economics & Policy at Bangor University’s School of Environmental & Natural Sciences. He also serves as Director of Research Postgraduate Studies and leads the Mitsilo lab on the Mirari project (Managing Protected Areas Equitably).

• Current roles: Senior Lecturer, Director of Research Postgraduate Studies
• Active research areas: socio-economic impacts of conservation, environmental justice, land tenure, valuation methods
• Key collaborations: Mitsilo lab (Madagascar), Tanzania forest governance initiatives

Research Focus: His work addresses the intersection of environmental governance, community livelihoods, and policy effectiveness, particularly in Madagascar and Eastern Africa. Themes include:

• Equitable conservation practices
• Land tenure security and restoration
• Power dynamics in participatory forest management
• Valuation of non-market environmental goods
• Adoption of sustainable land-use strategies

Projects: Recent initiatives include assessing carbon credits in Tanzania, climate-driven migration impacts on tropical forests, and FORWARDS (ForestWard Observatory for European Forests). He has contributed to SDG targets through climate action and life on land research.

Advising: Neal actively supervises postgraduate research students and contributes to datasets like the 2016 Eastern Madagascar household survey. His methodological expertise includes discrete choice experiments and welfare impact analysis.