Ms Jill Jones has an extensive background in deaf education and sign language advocacy, beginning with an audit project on deaf education in the UK and Scandinavia from 2001 to 2005. She has worked to strengthen the involvement of deaf young people in educational provision through government-supported initiatives, which led to her community-based research on sign language endangerment and reversing language shift. Her findings were presented at the LAUD Symposium in Germany in 2014 and later published by Benjamins in 2016. Jill has also contributed to international scholarship, presenting further research on endangered sign language communities at the Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference at the University of Albuquerque in 2022 which is currently awaiting publication. In collaboration with UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages, she is currently involved in a joint research project with Leeds Beckett University titled ‘Learning from the Welsh Language Revival Programme’, aimed at developing policies to protect British Sign Language and improve the wellbeing of deaf children (2025–2027).