Alison Jones
New Zealand sociologist
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Barbara Alison Jones MNZM is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.[1] She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin New Zealand politician 1863–1867; great granddaughter of Admiral William Oswald Story of the British Royal Navy.[2] She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones [3][4]
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| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
| Awards | Dame Joan Metge, 2014 |
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Education and career
Jones studied at Auckland for her Doctor of Education, entitled "'At School I've Got a Chance...': social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school".[5]
In 2004, Jones was selected to give the Herbison Lecture by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education.[6] In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland.[7]
In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal.[8][9] She was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017.[10]
In the 2019 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and sociology research.[11]
Publications
Her books include 'At school I've Got a Chance': Pacific Islands and Pākehā girls at school (1991), He Kōrero: Words Between Us: First Māori Pākehā conversations on paper (2011), and Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds (2017) co-authored with Kuni Kaa Jenkins which won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.[12] Her 2020 memoir, This Pākehā Life, was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award (General Nonfiction).[13]