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I joined the UCL Department of Geography in September 2022. I have also taught in the School of Geography and the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London since 2018, where I am a member of the Centre on Labour and Global Production.
Before returning to academia, I had a career as an editor and writer. In addition to my academic work, I have written extensively for activist publications over the last 15 years.
- More about Dr Jones
I gained my PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London in 2021. My thesis was entitled Port Competition and Dockworker Organising Across Scales and Networks: London and East England, 2000-2020. My research was supported by Economic and Social Research Council funding, as part of a CASE studentship in collaboration with the International Transport Workers Federation.
Previously, I gained an MRes in Geography at QMUL in 2016, an MA in International Relations at Swansea University in 2006, and a BScEcon (Hons) in International Politics at Aberystwyth University in 2001.
- Teaching
I teach on the following modules:
- Economic Geography (GEOG0023, Lecturer)
- Thinking Geographically I (GEOG0151, Tutor)
- Thinking Geographically II (GEOG0012, Tutor)
- Publications
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- Research Interests
My academic research has focused on the political economy of the logistics industry and dockworker trade union organising. My PhD thesis explored the roles of capital, labour, and the state in the development of a port in Britain and its workplace regime. It focused on analysing the connections between dockworkers' experience of work, their trade union activities, and strategies pursued by management, both in relation to the workplace and their competitive and cooperative relationships with other firms.
The thesis was explicitly multidisciplinary, combining Marxist approaches to political economy and competition with a geographical approach that considered the difficulties of place-based organizing across multiple scales and theoretical synthesis of relevant aspects of industrial relations literature.
I am also interested in the relationship between emancipatory social movements and the state. I am currently conducting research, as part of a collaborative authoring project, into the experiences of socialist activists during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party and the role of the state at various scales in shaping, enabling, and limiting their activism.
