Publications

Resources

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Books
  1. Jones P & Osborne T with Gadsby E, Keen N & Sullivan-Drage C (2022) Virtual reality methods: a guide for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.  Policy Press, Bristol. [available as open access]
  2. Jones P (2020) Bodies, technologies & methods.  Routledge, Abingdon
  3. Jones P, Long P & Perry B eds. (2019) Cultural intermediaries connecting communities: revisiting approaches to cultural engagement.  Policy Press, Bristol
  4. Warren S & Jones P eds. (2015) Creative economies, creative communities: rethinking place, policy and practice Ashgate, Farnham
  5. Jones P & Evans J (2013) Urban regeneration in the UK: boom, bust and recovery Second Edition Sage, London
  6. Jones P & Evans J (2008) Urban regeneration in the UK: theory and practice Sage, London

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Many of these papers, particularly the older ones, require a subscription.  Some of them appear on my Researchgate page as manuscript copies.  If you want to read something and can't get hold of a copy, feel free to drop me a line.

  1. Denoon-Stevens SP, Andres L, Nel V and Jones P (2022) Unpacking planners' views of the success and failure of planning in post-apartheid South Africa. Cities 130: 103867 [open access]
  2. Osborne T & Jones P (2022) Embodied virtual geographies: linkages between bodies, spaces, and digital environments.  Geography Compass 16;6, e12648, 1-10 [open access]
  3. Moran D, Jones P, Jordaan J & Porter A (2022) Does prison location matter for prisoner wellbeing? The effect of location within greenspace on self-harm and violence in prisons in England and Wales.  Wellbeing, Space & Society 3, 100065 [open access]
  4. Moran D, Jones P, Jordaan J & Porter A (2022) Nature contact and wellbeing in the workplace: Greenspace and staff sickness absence in prisons in England and Wales.  Environment & Behaviour 54;2 276-299. [open access]
  5. Jones P, Andres L, Denoon-Stevens S & Melgaço L (2022) Planning out abjection? The role of the planning profession in post-apartheid South Africa.  Planning Theory 21;1 35-55 [open access]
  6. Denoon-Stevens S, Andres L, Melgaço L, Jones P, Massey R, Nel V (2022) Theory versus practice in planning education: the view from South Africa.  Planning Practice and Research. 37;4 509-525 [open access]
  7. Moran D, Jones P, Jordaan J & Porter A (2021) Does nature contact in prison improve wellbeing? Mapping land cover to identify the effect of greenspace on self-harm and violence in prisons in England and Wales.  Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111;6 1779-1795 [manuscript available]
  8. Van Loon A, Lester-Moseley I, Rohse M, Jones P & Day R (2020) Creative practice as a tool to build drought and flood resilience in the Global South.  Geoscience Communication 3;2 453-474 [open access]
  9. Andres L, Jones P, Denoon-Stevens S & Melgaço L (2020) Negotiating polyvocal strategies: re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa.  Urban Studies 57;12 2440-2455. [open access]
  10. Jones P & Osborne T (2020) Analysing virtual landscapes using postmemory. Social & Cultural Geography. 21;2 186-206 [open access]
  11. Disney, T., Warwick, L., Ferguson, H., Leigh, J. T., Cooner, T., Beddoe, L., Jones, P. & Osborne, T. (2019) Isn’t it funny the children that are further away we don’t think about as much? Using GPS to explore the mobilities and geographies of social work and child protection practice.  Children & Youth Services Review 100, 39-49 [open access]
  12. Osborne T, Warner E, Jones P & Resch B (2019) Performing social media.   Geohumanities 5;1 282-294 [subscription required].
  13. Warren S & Jones P (2018) Cultural policy, governance and urban diversity: resident perspectives from Birmingham, UK.  Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 109;1 22-35 [open access]
  14. Osborne T & Jones P (2017) Biosensing and geography: a mixed methods approach.  Applied Geography 87, 160-169 [open access]
  15. Zandieh R, Flacke J, Martinez J, Jones P & van Maarseveen M (2017) Do inequalities in neighbourhood walkability drive disparities in older adults’ outdoor walking?  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14;7 1-22 [open access]
  16. Jones P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Jam C & Warren S (2017) Urban landscapes and the atmosphere of place. Urban Morphology 21;1 29-40 [open access]
  17. Zandieh R, Martinez J, Flacke J, Jones P & van Maarseveen M (2016) Older adults’ outdoor walking: inequalities in neighbourhood safety, pedestrian infrastructure and aesthetics. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13;12 1-24 [open access]
  18. Jones P & Jam C (2016) Creating ambiances, co-constructing place: a poetic transect across the city.  Area. 48;3 317-324 [open access]
  19. Jones P & Warren S (2016) Time, rhythm & the creative economy. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41;3 286-296 [open access]
  20. Ryder H, Maltby J, Rai L, Jones P, & Flowe H  (2016). Women's fear of crime and preference for formidable mates: How specific are the underlying psychological mechanisms? Evolution and Human Behavior 37;4 293-302 [subscription required].  
  21. Jones P, Layard A, Speed C & Lorne C (2015) MapLocal: use of smartphones for crowdsourced planning. Planning Practice & Research 30;3 322-336. [open access]
  22. Warren S & Jones P (2015) Local governance, disadvantaged communities and cultural intermediation in the creative urban economy.  Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy 33;6 1738-1752 [open access]
  23. Jones P (2014) Performing sustainable transport: a RIDE across the city. Cultural Geographies 21;2 282-287 [subscription required]
  24. Jones P (2012) Sensory indiscipline and affect: a study of commuter cycling Social & Cultural Geography 13;6 645-658 [subscription required]
  25. Jones P & Evans J (2012) The spatial transcript: analysing mobilities through qualitative GIS. Area 44;1 92-99 [subscription required]
  26. Jones P & Evans J (2012) Rescue Geography: place making, affect and regeneration.  Urban Studies 49;11, 2315–2330 [subscription required]
  27. Kingston D, Eastwood W, Jones P, Johnson R, Marshall S & Hannah D (2012) Experiences of using mobile technologies and virtual fieldtrips in Physical Geography: implications for hydrology education. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16;5, 1281–1286 [open access]
  28. Jones P & Burwood D (2011) Cycling and the city: reflections of commuting practices.  Liminalities: A journal of performance studies 7;4 no pagination [open access]
  29. Jones P & Evans J (2011) Creativity and project management: a comic. ACME 10;3 585-632 [open access]
  30. Evans J & Jones P (2011) The walking interview: methodology, mobility and place. Applied Geography 31;2 849-858 [subscription required]
  31. Jones P, Drury R & McBeath J (2011) Using GPS-enabled mobile computing to augment qualitative interviewing: two case studies. Field Methods 23;2 173-187 [subscription required]
  32. Antonsich M & Jones P (2010) Mapping the Swiss referendum on the minarets’ ban. Political Geography 29;2 57-62 [subscription]
  33. Evans J, Jones P & Krueger R (2009) Organic regeneration and sustainability or Can the credit crunch save our cities? Local Environment 14;7 683-698  [subscription]
  34. Jones P (2008) Different but the same? Post-war slum clearance and contemporary regeneration in Birmingham, UK. CITY 12;3 356-371 [subscription]
  35. Jones P, Bunce G, Evans J, Gibbs H & Ricketts Hein J (2008) Exploring space and place with walking interviews. Journal of Research Practice 4;2  [open access]
  36. Ricketts Hein J, Jones P & Evans J (2008) Mobile methodologies: theory, technology and practice. Geography Compass 2;5 1266-1285 [subscription]
  37. Evans J & Jones P (2008) Towards Lefebvrian socio-nature? A film about rhythm, nature and science. Geography Compass 2;3 659-670 [subscription]
  38. Evans J & Jones P (2008b) Sustainable urban regeneration as a shared territory. Environment and Planning A 40;6 1416-1434  [subscription]
  39. Jones P & Macdonald N (2007) Getting it wrong first time: building an interdisciplinary research relationship. Area 39;4, 490-498 [subscription]
  40. Jones P & Macdonald N (2007) Making space for unruly water: sustainable drainage systems and the disciplining of surface runoff. Geoforum 30;3, 534-544 [subscription]
  41. Macdonald N & Jones P (2006) The inclusion of sustainable drainage systems in flood management in the post industrial city. Scottish Geographical 122;3, 233-246 [subscription]
  42. Jones P & Evans J (2006) Urban regeneration, governance and the state: exploring notions of distance and proximity. Urban Studies 43;9, 1491-1509 [subscription]
  43. Jones P (2005) Performing the city: a body and a bicycle take on Birmingham, UK.  Social and Cultural Geography 6;6, 813-830 [subscription]
  44. Jones P (2005) The suburban high flat in the post-war reconstruction of Birmingham, 1945-71. Urban History 32;2, 323-341 [available via free JSTOR account]
  45. Jones P (2004) Historical continuity and post-1945 urban redevelopment: the example of Lee Bank, Birmingham, UK. Planning Perspectives 19;4, 365-389 [subscription]
  46. Jones P (2004) Paying the price for high hopes: UK public sector high-rise and the Housing Subsidies Act, 1956. Planning History 26;1-2, 12-16 [open access]

Book Chapters
  1. Jones P & Osborne T (2021) ‘Gaming and VR in geographical research’ in Nadia von Benzon, Mark Holton, Catherine Wilkinson & Samantha Wilkinson (eds.) Creative methods for human geographers. Sage, London 285-295.
  2. Osborne T & Jones P (2020) ‘Virtual reality and memorials: (re)building and experiencing the past’ in Micieli-Voutsinas J & Person A (eds.) Affective architecture: more than representational approaches to heritage. Routledge, Abingdon 252-266.
  3. Jones P (2017) ‘Mobile bodies’ in Michael Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies Routledge, New York, 304-312
  4. Jones P, Layard A, Lorne C & Speed C (2015) ‘Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: the MapLocal pilot’ in Dave O’Brien & Peter Matthews (eds.) After urban regeneration: communities, policy and place. Policy Press, Bristol, 165-179
  5. Jones P, Lorne C & Speed C (2015) ‘Using technology to help communities shout louder’ in Catherine Durose & Liz Richardson (eds.) Designing public policy for co-production: theory, practice and change  Policy Press, Bristol, 141-148
  6. Jones P (2007) ‘The dismemberment of modern Birmingham’ in Peter Martyn (ed.) The City in Art ISPAN, Warsaw.

Major projects as lead investigator

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Cultural intermediation in the creative urban economy (2012-2016)

This £1.5m project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J005320/1).  Cultural intermediation is a process which connects different kinds of communities into the creative economy and wider society.  It plays a critical role in raising aspirations, upskilling and building confidence, all of which are vital to allow people to engage with and benefit from one of the most dynamic sectors of the contemporary UK economy.
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MapLocal: Localism and connected neighbourhood planning (2012)

This £40k project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J006580/1).  We developed a smartphone app for Android phones (downloadable from Google Play).  This allowed communities to map the things in their neighbourhoods that were important to them, simply by walking around taking pictures with their phone.  Geotaggged photos and audio recordings were automatically uploaded to a community map.
Connecting Communities in the City (2011)

This £15k project (aka 'The Cities Pitch') funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council was to develop an application for the larger Cultural Intermediation project.  This exploratory work created a number of scoping papers and other outputs that helped build the larger research project.
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Rescue Geography (2007-2009)

This £95k project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/F004494/1).  The initial project used walking interviews to investigate place and belonging in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, using GPS to map these stories to the locations in which they were told by participants.  An unfunded follow up project used the same technique to explore the practice of cycle commuting, asking cyclists to narrate their ride home.  Both projects involved collaboration with Dan Burwood, a documentary photographer, on an exhibition of the research findings.

Projects as co-investigator

I have also been co-investigator on a series of other collaborative research projects.

The appropriateness, usefulness and impact of the current urban planning curriculum in South African Higher Education (2016-2018, ESRC £474k)

Hestia 2: Geospatial analysis of Herodotus's Histories (2013-14, AHRC £80k)

Conserving and Sharing Community Media: The Connected Communities Collection (2013, AHRC £40k)

In conversation with...:co-designing with more-than-human communities. (2013, AHRC £40k)