Institute of Education London

Phil Jones

• Qualifications and position:
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Department of Early Years and Primary Education
• Summary:
  • I have researched areas relating to children and young people, inclusion, children's rights, the arts and therapy for a number of years.
    My books have been translated and published in Chinese, Korean and Greek. Sole authored texts include 'Rethinking Childhood' (2009 Continuum), 'The Arts Therapies' (2005 Routledge), 'Drama As Therapy' (2007 Routledge) and the co-authored 'Rethinking Children's Rights' with Welch (2010 Continuum). Edited books include 'Children's Rights in Practice' (2011 with Walker, Sage) and 'Childhood: Services and Provision for Children' (2007 with Moss, Tomlinson and Welch, Pearson). I am series editor of Continuum's 'New Childhoods' . Research articles have featured in 'The European Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy' and 'The Arts in Psychotherapy'.
    I have delivered key notes at a variety of international conferences including those held at De Witts University, Johannesburg, Yong-In University, Seoul, New York University and the World Congress of Psychotherapy in Sydney.
• Teaching:
  • Contributing tutor to Masters Courses including MA in Primary Education and MA Early Years Education: Policy and Practice and Contemporary Issues in the Early Years; Doctoral supervision.
• Research Projects:
  • Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Project work involving arts therapy and arts education practice in London Schools
    
    Carnegie Trust: Project work involving arts practice and inclusive education
    
    European Social Fund: Transnational work with partners in Portugal, Ireland, Greece and the Netherlands: 'Disability, Arts, Training and Employment'
    
    Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Suicide Prevention in Schools
    
    Leeds PCT: St George's Health Centre Project children as researchers into health provision project Children's Workforce Development Council: early years practitioner –research work
    
    Leeds University Priming Fund: 'How can pupils' experiences and views help develop inclusive practice in transition from primary to secondary education?'
• Postgraduate Research:
  • My research engages with a variety of issues concerning childhood, inclusive education and empowerment. I am especially interested in the emergence of children's rights, the relationship between the arts, communication and well being in children's lives and multi-agency work - in particular concerning therapeutic support for children.
    
    Doctoral supervision includes the following subjects: inclusive education in different international contexts; therapeutic work with children; play and play work; arts therapies work with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties; children and young people in care and their experience of education
• Professional Activities:
  • Editor `New Childhoods' Series, Continuum: appointed Series Editor, June 2007; Editorial Board Member of 'Dramatherapy' Journal (Routledge);
    Visiting Professor, Concordia University, Montreal (2007 - ); Visiting Professor, Childhood and Early Years Research group, Faculty of Sport and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University (2010 - ); External Consultant to Open University provision in Early Years, Childhood and Youth (2009 –2011); External Examiner to Open University Masters in Childhood Studies (2008 - );External Examiner Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Masters in Dance Movement Therapy (2008 - ); Invited member of The Centre for the Arts in Human Development at Concordia University, Montreal (2007 - ) and Director of Research within the Institute for the Study of Conflict Resolution and the Arts (ISCRA) (2009- );
    Reader to Routledge; Pearson; Sage; Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice (Psychology Press); former member of Research Centre, Childhood and Inclusive Education (Leeds University);founding member of the Centre for Research into Childhood (Leeds Metropolitan University);
• Conferences/presentations:
  • 'A history and review of the arts therapies: Dream, image, action and relation' (2011) Invited whole conference speaker, Triennial World Congress for Psychotherapy, Sydney, Australia
    'Children as co-researchers in therapeutic work: rights, voice and the arts' (2010) The Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association International Conference, Keble College Oxford
    'Rethinking Childhood and Therapy' (2010), Invited Keynote, Arts and Therapy: Research, Theory and Practice, Conference, Yong-In University, Seoul, South Korea.
    'Unspeakable: Therapy, Arts, Attitudes and Taboo' (2008) Invited Keynote African Conference on Arts, HIV and Aids, De Witts University, Johannesburg, South Africa
    'The Core Processes in Therapy' (2007) Presentation and Master class National Association of Drama Therapy Annual Conference, Canada/USA, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
    'Childhood: Service Provision, Policy and the Research Process' (2007), Second International Conference in the Social Sciences, University of Granada, Spain
    'The Arts Therapies: Research into Practice' (2007) Invited presentation, Arts Therapies Conference, Brock University, Toronto, Canada
    'The Arts, Play and Health' (2004) British Psychological Society, Developmental Psychology Conference, Leeds
    'Dramatherapy' (2003) XVII International Congress of Psychopathology, Athens,
    'Suicide Prevention in Schools' (2002), 'Building Bridges' Conference presentation University of Athens, 2nd International Theatre & Drama education Conference & Conference proceedings published by Metaichmio (2002)
• Website / Blogsite:
  • http://educationcontinuum.typepad.com/education_continuum/new-childhoods.html