Professor Owain Jones

 Emeritus Professor 

Personal statement

Owain gained an MSc (Society and Space) and PhD in Cultural Geography at the world leading
Department of Geography, University of Bristol 1993-1997.

Conducting post-doctoral research at Bristol, Exeter, the Open University and other institutions, he has, since then, in a series of RCUK funded projects, studied and written about many aspects of: nature-society relations; landscape, place and memory; and the environmental crisis; children’s geographies; theories of pragmatism and non-representation.

He has conducted research projects on: water and society (floods, tides, coastal cultures, water and community; on trees, place and landscape; and children, nature and place.

He recently led a £1.5 million Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities project which involves eight UK universities, and numerous community partners and artists in four case study areas across the UK. This project sought to creatively explore and transform connections within and between communities, and communities and nature, in relation to water issues.

Owain was appointed as the first Professor of Environmental Humanities in the UK in 2014 at Bath Spa University. He is now deputy director of the newly formed Research Centre for the Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa. He has published/co-published more than 80 scholarly articles and four books;

• Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago: Imagining Islands, (2018) with Ysanne Holt and David-Martin-Jones
• Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds, London: Routledge (2017) with Michelle Bastian, Niamh Moore and Emma Roe
• Geography and Memory: Identity, Place and Becoming (2012) with Jo Garde-Hansen
• Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place (2002) with Paul Cloke.

He is currently supervising four Environmental Humanities PhDs with art practice.

Academic qualifications

• PhD University of Bristol
• MSc University of Bristol
• MA University of the West of England

Other external roles

• Non-executive director of Ecowild.