Professor Phil Jones MA PhD

Dr Phil Jones

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor in Cultural Geography

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Phil Jones - Research in 60 seconds videoDr Phil Jones is a cultural geographer who focuses on issues related to the city.  His work deals with a number of research areas including urban regeneration, cycling and the arts.  He has a particular interest in research methods, including qualitative GIS, mobile interviewing and arts-based approaches.

Qualifications

  • PhD University 麻豆精选, 2003
  • MA University of Leicester, 1999
  • MA University of St Andrews, 1998

Biography

Phil grew up on the Wirral before moving to St Andrews in 1994 to undertake an MA in Modern History.聽 An MA in Urban History from the University of Leicester followed in 1999.聽 He started his PhD in Geography at Birmingham in 2000 and has lived in the city ever since.聽 He has worked for the University 麻豆精选 since 2003 and has served in a number of different roles including leader for the Human Geography Research Theme and REF lead for Unit of Assessment 14.聽 He is now the GEES Head of Admissions.

Teaching

BA / BSc Geography

Dr Jones teaches around cities, culture, embodiment and architecture. He gets consistently high feedback scores from student evaluations and has a commitment to excellence and innovation in the delivery of teaching. 

Postgraduate supervision

Phil runs a 'Playful Methods' Lab bringing together the activity of his PhD students, visiting fellows and postdoctoral researchers. He is keen to supervise students with an interest in qualitative methods exploring topics such as: embodiment (particularly around walking and cycling); urban development and regeneration; cultural and arts activity.

Professor Jones welcomes formal and informal enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.

Research

Phil is a cultural geographer whose work focuses on developing novel qualitative methods.聽 He runs the Playful Methods Lab and has developed techniques drawing upon virtual and augmented reality, videogames, qualitative GIS, wearables, biosensing, eyetracking, touchtables, smartphone apps, video and action research.聽 Much of his work is empirically embedded within cities and covers topics around embodiment (especially walking and cycling), art, creativity and urban regeneration.聽

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Osborne, T & Jones, P (eds) 2023, . Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar. <>

Jones, P & Osborne, T 2022, . Policy Press, Bristol. <>

Article

Rzeszewski , M, Osborne, T, Jones, P, Evans, L & Weitkamp, G 2024, '', Applied Geography, vol. 167, 103295.

Andres, L, Denoon-Stevens, S & Jones, P 2024, '', Planning, Practice and Research, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 207-222.

Moran, D, Jordaan, J & Jones, P 2024, '', Land, vol. 13, no. 2, 223.

Moran, D, Jordaan, J & Jones, P 2023, '', European Journal of Criminology.

Osborne, T & Jones, P 2022, '', Geography Compass, vol. 16, no. 6, e12648.

Moran, D, Jones, P, Jordaan, JA & Porter, A 2022, '', Environment and Behavior, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 276-299.

Jones, P, Andres, L, Denoon-Stevens, SP & Melgaco Silva Marques, L 2022, '', Planning Theory, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 35-55.

Denoon-Stevens, S, Andres, L, Jones, P, Melgaco Silva Marques, L, Massey, R & Nel, V 2022, '', Planning, Practice and Research, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 509-525.

Denoon-Stevens, SP, Andres, L, Nel, V & Jones, P 2022, '', Cities, vol. 130, 103867.

Moran, D, Jones, P, Jordaan, JA & Porter, A 2021, '', Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 111, no. 6, pp. 1779-1795.

Moran, D, Jones, P, Jordaan, JA & Porter, A 2021, '', Wellbeing, Space and Society, vol. 3, 100065.

Chapter

Moran, D, Jones, P, Jordaan, J & Porter, A 2022, . in D Moran, Y Jewkes, K-L Blount-Hill & V St John (eds), The Palgrave handbook of prison design. 1 edn, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 657-678.

Jones, P & Osborne, T 2021, . in N von Benzon, M Holton, C Wilkinson & S Wilkinson (eds), Creative methods for human geographers. 1 edn, SAGE Publications, London, pp. 285-296. <>

Expertise

Urban regeneration in the UK; art as a research method; innovative mapping techniques; high-rise social housing in the UK; impact of historical development on the built form of contemporary cities; virtual reality; greenspace and stress