Professor Lisa Jones

Professor Lisa Jones

Professor of Education and Environment

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Education

Qualifications

  • BA (University of Liverpool)
  • MA (University of Manchester)
  • PGCert
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Manchester)

Summary

Professor Lisa Jones is a Professor of Education and Environment based in the School of Education. She is the Director of Research in the School of Education and is also the REF Coordinator for Education Unit of Assessment. Lisa's research focuses on educational, social and environmental injustices and engages participatory, place-based and creative approaches, particularly in relation to advancing climate action. Lisa is currently a Co-convenor for the World Education Research Association (WERA), international Research Network on: Emotions in Environmental and Sustainability Education Research (EMESER).

Lisa is the PI on the British Academy-funded 'SHEroic Journeys: Vietnamese Women's Eco-Trekking Tales for Climate Action' project. She was also PI on the 'Youth-led adaptation for climate change challenges in Vietnam: social action, intergenerational and intercultural learning' project funded by the British Academy’s Youth Futures Programme, supported under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), as well as the British Academy's maximising impact project 'Advancing Policy and Practice on Climate Action (APPOCA)' project. These projects have involved partnerships with the Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Loughborough University and Newcastle University as well as a number of non-academic partners, in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. These projects have used participatory and arts-based collaborative approaches to support underserved groups and communities, including young people and ethnic minority and Indigenous women, to explore culturally diverse traditional practices and indigenous knowledges to offer important insights into mitigating against the challenges of climate change.

Lisa was the academic lead on the Just Like Our Lives project working to support the educational experiences of young people who are looked after. The project was very successful in foregrounding the voices of young people through its co-production approach including the creation of an animated film that been widely used in training and public outreach across a range of educational settings and social/children’s services. The film was shortlisted for a range of prestigious national and international film festivals and awards including the World Health Organization’s Health for All Film Festival (from 1265 entries from 119 countries) and the prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research in Film Awards (see the film at https://youtu.be/Al3vtGKcqhg).

Along with her colleague Dr Martin Nickson and their partner the Borashabaa Refugee Community Organisation, Lisa has also received funding from the Wellcome Trust funded, British Science Association initiative - the 'Ideas Fund' - an inspiring and innovative pilot, which changes the relationship between communities and researchers to work in partnership around mental wellbeing.

Lisa was also the CI on INSECURE - Capturing Intergenerational Narratives of Coastal Change The project's film featuring the stories collected from youth and community members was a finalist in the AHRC's Research in Film Award (RIFA) 'climate change' category 2021.

Lisa currently teaches as follows:

Module Leader - Social Justice and Social Change (U/G - Level 4)

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action

Jones, L., Parsons, K. J., Halstead, F., & Wolstenholme, J. M. (2023). Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action. Children & society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12819

Conversations on grief and hope: a collaborative autoethnographic account exploring the lifeworlds of international youth engaged with climate action

Jones, L., Parsons, K. J., Halstead, F., Ngoc Nguyen, D. N., Pham, H. T., Pham, D. L., Allison, C. R., Chew, M., Bird, E., Meek, A., Buckton, S. J., Le Nguyen, K., Lloyd Williams, A., Thi Vo, T., Le, H., Nguyen, A. T., Hackney, C. R., & Parsons, D. R. (2023). Conversations on grief and hope: a collaborative autoethnographic account exploring the lifeworlds of international youth engaged with climate action. Journal of the British Academy, 11(S3), 69-117. https://doi.org/10.5871/JBA/011S3.069

2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss

Jones, L., Halstead, F., Parsons, K. J., Le, H., Bui, L. T. H., Hackney, C. R., & Parsons, D. R. (2021). 2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss. Journal of the British Academy, 9(s5), 29-68. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s5.029

Newspaper / Magazine

How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life

Parsons, K., Halstead, F., & Jones, L. (2021). How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life

Presentation / Conference Contribution

INtergenerational Stories of Erosion and Coastal community Understanding of REsilience 'INSECURE'

Parsons, K., Jones, L., & Halstead, F. (2021, April). INtergenerational Stories of Erosion and Coastal community Understanding of REsilience ‘INSECURE’. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021 (European Geosciences Union), vEGU21: Gather Online

Research interests

Educational and social inequality

Social and climate justice

Class inequalities (in education and linked to the climate crisis)

Participatory research approaches (co-production and youth/community-led)

Education for sustainability

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Children and young people's understandings/interpretations and uses of culture in Hull

Funder

Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Grant

£9,800.00

Started

16 October 2017

Status

Ongoing

Project

SHEroic Journeys: Vietnamese Women's Eco-Trekking Tales for Climate Action

Funder

British Academy

Grant

£101,568.00

Started

28 June 2024

Status

Ongoing

Project

Youth-led Adaptation for climate change challenges in Vietnam: social action, inter-generational and inter-cultural learning

Funder

British Academy

Grant

£252,200.00

Started

20 March 2020

Status

Complete

Project

Unity for All

Funder

Wellcome Trust

Grant

£7,213.00

Started

1 November 2021

Status

Complete

Project

QR-GCRF 20.21: Facilitating interactive co-created digitally-based participatory research into the impacts of climate change on communities in rural Vietnam.

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£12,552.00

Started

1 June 2021

Status

Complete

Project

Advancing policy and practice on climate action through intergenerational dialogue in Vietnam and beyond across South-East Asia

Funder

British Academy

Grant

£47,776.00

Started

11 January 2023

Status

Complete

Project

HIKE: Digital Storytelling and Communication: Inspiring Climate Action

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£2,865.00

Started

1 July 2023

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

INtergenerational Stories of Erosion and Coastal community Understanding of REsilience

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£560.00

Started

1 March 2020

Status

Complete

Project

Development of Ideas Fund Project: The Ideas Fund Showcase

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£4,000.00

Started

1 January 2023

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Lisa welcomes postgraduate research students working in her areas of research specialism.

She is currently PhD cluster lead for the 'Participatory, place-based stewardship for mobilising urban climate action' cluster.

Current doctoral supervisions

* The Cultural Production of 'just' flood resilience (Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures - co-supervision with EEI/Geography).

* Brush Strokes on a Turbulent Canvas: Employing Critical Portraiture Methodology to Investigate Teaching Excellence at a Northern University

* Place-attachment, storytelling and creativity for environmental stewardship

* Narrative Waves: Unveiling the power of class-based, place-attachment to water through creative, intergenerational storytelling for climate action

*Engaging Communities in Ocean Citizen Science: A vehicle for enhancing Ocean Literacy

Completed doctoral students:

* Investigating the lived experiences of children and young people’s changing relationship with the natural environment during and after Covid-19 - Dr Katie Parsons.

* Children’s Perceptions of Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam - Dr Florence Halstead

* “What if you don't feel ‘disadvantaged’ and you’re being called that?”: an exploration of young people’s perspectives on the ‘disadvantaged’ label in an English secondary school - Dr Alexandra Jones

* Novice teachers’ emerging sense of professional identity explored through portrait methodology - Dr Ella Ait-Zaouit

* Operationalising the notion of a restorative school community: A case study in a socio-economically deprived area (co-supervised PhD with Law) - Dr Richard Rhodes

* Representations of Disability: A study of how people with an impairment are portrayed in equality and diversity training in UK Higher Education Institutions - Dr Martha Kember

* The effectiveness of current teachers’ continuous professional development: perceptions by supervisors, senior teachers and teachers in Muscat, Oman – Dr Khalid Shammakhi

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