Professor Martin Jones

Professor
BA (1992) and PhD (1997) in Human Geography - both from the University of Manchester Photograph of Professor Martin Jones.

Contact

Email: msj@aber.ac.uk
Office: K12
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 641
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities

  • Dean of Social Sciences (from 1st September 2008)
  • Co-ordinator of MA Local and Regional Economic Development
  • IGES Advisory Group
  • Dean of Social Sciences (from 1st September 2008)
  • Advisory Committee
  • Management Group
  • Co-ordinator of MA Local and Regional Economic Developement

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

Module coordinator for:

  • Regional Geographies (GG39920)
  • Positioning Regional And Local Economies (GG1940)

Other Teaching Responsibilities

My teaching is focused on the MA in Local and Regional Development, where I teach both the theory, history and practise of state intervention.

Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

I am a member of the New Political Geographies Research Group and my research interests fall into 7 areas (see links below), and are elaborated on my Research Interest Page.

  1. Economic Development and Economic Governance
  2. The Regulation Approach and Strategic - Relational State Theory
  3. Regional Spaces / Spaces of Regionalism.
  4. Work - Welfare Regimes
  5. State Spatiality and the Geographies of State Power
  6. Nature and the State
  7. Space & Time in Geography

Biography

I hold a BA (1992) and PhD (1997) in Human Geography - both from the University of Manchester. I was Simon Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Manchester (1996-1998), before joining the Institute in September 1998. I became a Reader in March 2002 and Professor in June 2004.

I was Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences between 2004 and 2007 and am currently on research leave (until September 2008) funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize. From 1st September 2008, I will be Dean of Social Sciences.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2006

  1. Whitehead M, Jones M, Jones R. 2006. Spatializing the ecological Leviathan: Territorial strategies and the production of regional natures. Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography, 88B: 49-65.
  2. Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones R. 2006. The theoretical challenge of devolution and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning, Forthcomin

2005

  1. Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones R. 2005. Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional Geographies of the British state. Regional Studies, 39: 421-436.
  2. Jones M, Goodwin M, Jones R. 2005. State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39: 397-403.
  3. Jones R, Goodwin M, Jones M, Pett K. 2005. "Filling in" the state: Economic governance and the evolution of devolution in Wales. Environment and Planning, C: Governm: 337-60. DOI
    'Filling in' the state: economic governance and the evolution of devolution in Wales 'Filling in' the state: economic governance and the evolution of devolution in Wales
  4. Jones M, Goodwin M, Jones R. 2005. Economic governance and devolution. Regional Studies, 39
  5. Jones M. 2005. New states, new theories: A strategic - relational approach to devolution and constitutional change. Territory, Identity and Space: Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation

Books

2009

  1. Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones R. 2009. Devolution, Constitutional Change, and the Shifting Economic and Political Geographies of the British State. In prep.
  2. Jones M. 2009. The Impedimenta State: The Limits to Spatial Governance . In prep.

2007

  1. Whitehead M, Jones R, Jones M. 2007. The nature of the state : excavating the political ecologies of the modern state. Oxford geographical and environmental studies;,