Professor Martin Jones

Pro Vice-Chancellor: Research, Enterprise, Engagement
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 (Llandinam) and K04 (Visualisation)
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 008

Google Scholar Profile:http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JKrqCF0AAAAJ


Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

My research spans economic and political geography. I am interested in the regional context and use this to develop the relevance and policy impact of my research. I have shaped key international debates on:

  • Economic Development and Economic Governance
  • The Regulation Approach and Strategic - Relational State Theory
  • Regional Spaces / Spaces of Regionalism.
  • Work - Welfare Regimes
  • State Spatiality and the Geographies of State Power
  • Space in Geography

I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for my contributions to policy debates on the learning and skills sector. I received an Honorary Professorial position (Docentship) in Oulu, Finland, for my research on the ‘geography of regions’. I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography in 2006 and elected an academician of the academy of social sciences for my contributions to ‘geographical political economy’.

Biography

My career at Aberystwyth University can be summarized as:

  • Lecturer (1998-2002), Reader (2002-2004), Professor (2004-present),
  • Director, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (2004-2007)
  • Dean of Social Science (2008-2009)
  • Co-Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) (2008-2012)
  • Pro-Vice Chancellor (2009-present)
  • Quality, Standards, Student Experience (2009-2011)
  • Participation and Collaboration (2011-2012)
  • Research, Enterprise, Engagement (2012-)

My Pro Vice-Chancellor role portfolio involves the line, budget, and portfolio leadership and management of:

  • Research Office;
  • Commercialisation and Consultancy Services;
  • Admissions and Recruitment (undergraduate and postgraduate);
  • Marketing, Web and Design;
  • Postal and Print;
  • Development and Alumni Relations;
  • Communications and Public Affairs.
  • Widening Access and Social Inclusion

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2013

  1. Jones M. 2013. Polymorphic spatial politics: tales from a grassroots regional movement in W Nicholls, J Beaumont and B Miller (eds) Spaces of Contention (Ashgate, Aldershot)
  2. Jones M and Woods M. 2013 New localities Regional Studies 47, 29-42
  3. Jones M and Paasi A. 2013. Regional world(s): advancing the geography of regions Regional Studies 47, 1-5 

2012

  1. Merriman P, Jones M, Olsson G, Sheppard E, Thrift N, and Tuan Y-F. 2012. Space and spatiality in theory Dialogues in Human Geography 2, 3-22
  2. Heley J and Jones M. 2012. Devolution in Wales – fiddling with spatial governance while the economy burns in M Ward and S Hardy (eds) Changing Gear – is Localism the New Regionalism? (Smith Institute, London)

2011

  1. Etherington D and Jones M. 2011. City-regions: new geographies of uneven development and inequality in M Neuman and A Hull (eds) The Futures of the City Region (Routledge, London)
  2. Jones M. 2011. The local in the global in A Leyshon, R Lee, L McDowell and P Sunley (eds) The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography (Sage, London)
  3. Jones M and MacLeod G. 2011. Territorial/relational: conceptualizing spatial economic governance in A Pike, A Rodrigues-Pose and J Tomaney (eds) Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, London)
  4. MacLeod G and Jones M. 2011. Renewing urban politics Urban Studies 48, 2443-2472

2010

  1. Jones M and Jessop B. 2010. Thinking state/space incompossibly Antipode 42, 1119-1149 
  2. Jones M. 2010. Impedimenta state: anatomies of neoliberal penality Criminology and Criminal Justice 10, 391-402
  3. Jones M. 2010. Limits to ‘thinking space relationally’ International Journal of Law in Context 6, 243-255

2009

  1. Jones M. 2009. Political Geography: State in R Kitchin and N Thrift (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 10 (Elsevier, Oxford)
  2. Jones M. 2009. Phase space: geography, relational thinking, and beyond Progress in Human Geography 33, 487-506
  3. Etherington D and Jones M. 2009. City-regions: new geographies of uneven development and inequality Regional Studies 43, 247-265
  4. Jones M and Etherington D. 2009 Governing the skills agenda: insights from the Sheffield city-region Local Economy 24, 68-79
  5. MacLeod G and Jones M. 2009. Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: In what sense a ‘regional world’? in A Pike (ed) Whither Regional Studies? (Routledge, London)

2008

  1. Watkin S and Jones M. 2008. 21st Century employment and training in the countryside? The rural ‘New Deal’ experience in M Woods (ed) New Labour’s Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997 (Policy Press, Bristol)
  2. Jones M. 2008. Recovering a sense of political economy Political Geography 27, 377-399
  3. Jessop B, Brenner N, and Jones M. 2008. Theorizing sociospatial relations Environment and Planning D 26, 381-401

Books

2012

  1. Goodwin M, Jones M and Jones R. 2012. Rescaling the State: Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance (Manchester University Press, Manchester)