Dr. Victoria J. E. Jones

Research Fellow: Arthritis and Farmers

Geography and Environment

Contact Details

email: victoriaje.jones2@worc.ac.uk

I am a Human Geographer with a focus on social and cultural geography.

Broadly, I am interested in how the small detail of everyday life can reveal much about the social, political and cultural conditions that surround them. 

Empirically, I have explored experiences of workers waiting through furlough through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, waiting in shopping queues during the COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns, conducted fieldwork in Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state queue, I am co-researching the situation of waiting through parental leave and recently co-researched historical material related to sheep dip legislature.

Currently I am part of the Nuffield Foundation and Arthritis UK funded study team, ‘Arthritis and farmers in England: Impacts, adaptations and prevention’ based at the University of Worcester.

Conceptually I work with approaches to articulating human experiences through ideas of relationality, particularly within concepts of affect and embodiment. Currently I have a few projects which explore people’s experience through the lens of orientation and disorientation. Methodologically, I am a qualitative researcher with expertise in a range of research methods, in particular I have worked with a variety of interview methods.

Prior to joining the University of Worcester, after a long career in design, design research and teaching design, I retrained in Human Geography through an ESRC funded PhD at Durham University. After the PhD I was a teaching fellow at Durham University and an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University.