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36
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6951
World Ranking
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National Ranking
1038

Overview

Owain Jones is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on geography, planning, and development as well as literature and literary theory. Their research spans several interdisciplinary subfields, including artificial intelligence, nature and landscape conservation, and health informatics.

The main topics of their work cover geographies of human-animal interactions, ecocriticism and environmental literature, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), machine learning in healthcare, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, and posthumanist ethics and activism.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn (2020) in Environmental Humanities
  • Rivers-mouths-tides-memories: A creative, inter-deep-mapping of two river/tidal places. Love of place, memory and affect; movements, patterns, marks, and practices of care (2022) in River Research and Applications
  • Popoff, Alexandra Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (review) (2020) in The Slavonic and East European Review

Owain Jones has collaborated with several other researchers, including Kate Rigby, Linda Williams, Evangelia Kyrimi, Scott McLachlan, and Jared M. Wohlgemut. Their publications often appear in venues such as Environmental Humanities, River Research and Applications, The Slavonic and East European Review, AI and Ethics, and Anthrozoös.

Their work intersects with emerging themes in both environmental humanities and artificial intelligence, incorporating aspects like wildlife conservation practices and explainability in health AI. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in their engagement with topics such as citizen bat conservation and health-related AI ethics.

Best Publications

  • Driving and 'passengering': Notes on the ordinary organization of car travel

    Eric Laurier;Hayden Lorimer;Barry Brown;Owain Jones

  • Dwelling, Place, and Landscape: An Orchard in Somerset:

    Paul Cloke;Owain Jones

  • Lay discourses of the rural: Developments and implications for rural studies

    Owain Jones

  • Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place

    Owain Jones;Paul J. Cloke

  • Non-human rural studies

    Owain Jones

  • Melting Geography: Purity, Disorder, Childhood and Space

    Owain Jones

  • An Ecology of Emotion, Memory, Self and Landscape

    Owain Jones

  • Geography, Memory and Non‐Representational Geographies

    Owain Jones

  • Construction design and management safety regulations in practice—progress on implementation

    Tony Baxendale;Owain Jones

  • Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk

    Lindsey McEwen;Joanne Garde-Hansen;Andrew P. Holmes;Owain Jones

  • ‘No More Heroes’: Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism:

    David Collinson;Owain Smolović Jones;Keith Grint

  • Non-Human Agencies: Trees in Place and Time

    Owain Jones;Paul Cloke

  • Rural Challenge(s) Partnership and New Rural Governance

    Owain Jones;Jo Little

  • Participatory research in more-than-human worlds

    Michelle Bastian;Owain Jones;Niamh Moore;Emma Roe

  • "True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe." Approaching the otherness of childhood

    Owain Jones

  • Geography and Memory: Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming

    Owain Jones;Joanne Garde-Hansen

  • Masculinity, gender, and rural policy

    Jo Little;Owain Jones

  • Tomboy tales: the rural, nature and the gender of childhood

    Owain Jones

  • ‘Unclaimed territory’: childhood and disordered space(s)

    Paul Cloke;Owain Jones

  • 'Before the Dark of Reason': Some Ethical and Epistemological Considerations on the Otherness of Children

    Owain Jones

  • The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place

    Paul Cloke;Owain Jones;Wayne Fife

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Cloke
Paul Cloke University of Exeter
Keith Grint
Keith Grint University of Warwick
J. D. Wood
J. D. Wood University of Bristol
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University

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