Kelvyn Jones, FBA, FAcSS, FLSW (born (1953-10-31)31 October 1953)[1][2] is a British professor (Emeritus) of human quantitative geography at the University of Bristol.
The citation on election reads ‘Kelvyn Jones is an internationally leading quantitative social scientist.
[81] 2019 Market Research Society Silver Medal: he was part of the team (Ron Johnston, David Rossiter, Todd Hartman, Charles Pattie, David Manley and Kelvyn Jones) that won this award for best research paper, "Exploring constituency-level estimates for the 2017 British general election", which discusses the implications of constituency-level opinion polls as their predictive ability is improved.
He has taught a course on multilevel modeling annually at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data analysis since 1992[89] and is a long term contributor to the Masters in Statistics and the Masters in Quantitative Social Science at the Leuven Statistics Research Centre.
His hobbies are listening to classical music, especially opera and song; gardening and 'allotmenteering', cooking, wine tasting and watching Bristol Rugby.