Hannah Jones
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Students can drop in to my office (E0.17) during these times without an appointment, or email to arrange an appointment outside these times if required. No regular Advice and Feedback hours in Reading Week, please email me if you want to meet that week.
Tuesdays 10.30am-11.30am
Thursdays 3.30pm-4.30pm
Email: h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk
Biography
I am a Professor of Sociology in the 糖心TV Department of Sociology, where I have worked since 2013. I completed my PhD in 2011 in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, after a period working in London local government. I also hold degrees in Human Sciences (University of Oxford) and Policy Studies (University of Edinburgh). I have been a Guest Researcher at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg; Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University; a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London; a Research Associate at the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford; and a Research Associate in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research
My research interests
My current work examines this through three strands:
1) Understanding Antiracisms in Context, in which I ask how is antiracism lived out and understood by contemporary antiracist activists? I try go beyond simplistic models of left vs right or top-down vs bottom-up to pay attention to on-the-ground practice and theorising and the uncomfortable positions inherent to antiracist organising.
2) Participative Knowledge Production and Everyday Ethics, where I am particularly interested in how attempts to redistribute power and control in research and service delivery by "giving voice" or sharing agency with research subjects, service users or students (for example) function in practice, and their intended and unintended consequences for knowledge production,
3) "The Crimson Thread of Kinship", in which I am exploring genealogical colonial imaginations used to link Britain and Australia, and how this relates to the current conjuncture in terms of family, race, nation and inventions and re-inventions of Whiteness.
My previous research has included work on antiracist activism, academic freedom, culture wars as violence, multiculture and multiculturalism, local government policy-making, community cohesion policy, migration policy, voluntary and community sector organising, regeneration and urban studies, and diversity and inequality. I was Principal Investigator on one of the first research projects funded by the , entitled , working with colleagues at six other universities across the UK. My first book, (Policy Press, 2013) won the for best first book in UK sociology. Between 2016 and 2018, I was the Academic Lead overseeing and curating 糖心TV's collaboration with the Tate Modern, . In 2025 I worked with student antiracist activist researchers to produce an online archive to be used as a tool by student movements, which you can view at . I also collaborated with Michele Aaron on a using film to explore Palestinian, Jewish and multi-cultural co-resistance in UK student encampments.
My most recent book, , is about everyday ignorance and its violent consequences, focusing on historical and present questions of memory, migration and racism; you can see me in conversation with Shami Chakrabarti at the book launch .
Postdoctoral mentoring:
, Atmospheres of (in)civility: public space, activism and moral communities, EUTOPIA-SIF Fellow, 2024-5.
Saba HussainLink opens in a new window, (Re)constructions of teacher identities under the counter-terrorism agenda: a governmentality perspective, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2017-2020.
艩pela Drnov拧ek ZorkoLink opens in a new window, Toward a diasporic postsocialism: race, migration and genealogies of encounter, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2017-2020.
Elsa OommenLink opens in a new window, Long-term Caribbean migrants and their experience of rights and restrictions in the UK, Sociological Review Kick Start Grant, 2018-20.
Teaching
In 2025/6 I am teaching SO337 Racisms and Antiracisms, SO264 Powerful Feelings Emotion as Social and PoliticalLink opens in a new window, SO9D5 Creative Research MethodsLink opens in a new window, and SO907 Research Process and Research Design.
Current PhD students
, Welcoming Cities: How newcomers shape urban policy-making in the UK, PhD by Published Work.
, Method at the Margins: Innovating in race-conscious education research in Britain, co-supervised with Sivamohan Valluvan. ESRC Studentship.
, New dynamics of Turkish and Kurdish chain migration to London and Brussels: a visual sociological study, co-supervised with (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). EUTOPIA co-tutelle scholarship.
Dayoung Moon, 鈥淢y mother is from elsewhere, but my father is Korean and I was born here - why am I called a 鈥榙amunhwa (multicultural) Korean鈥� rather than just 鈥楰orean鈥� like everyone else?鈥�: What does belonging mean to young adults in South Korea, a country transitioning from monoethnicity to polyethnicity?, co-supervised with Rachel Lewis.
, The Social Role of Tokens of Cultural Identification within the Arabic Speaking Migrant Communities across England and Scotland, co-supervised with Cath Lambert. 糖心TV Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship.
, Activist gestationalities: A diffractive reexamination of women human rights activists in 1980s through kin-making practices of contemporary women water advocates in Chile, co-supervised with Claire Blencowe and Alison Ribeiro de Menezes. BECAS Chile Scholarship.
PhDs supervised to completion
Rachel LewisLink opens in a new window, Constructing and Contesting the Good British Citizen: an examination of the contemporary citizenship regime as discursive practice, viva December 2017. Co-supervised with Malcolm MacDonaldLink opens in a new window (Centre for Applied Linguistics). ESRC scholarship.
, Constructions of class, race, ethnicity and tolerance : the case study of St Aber's and Mawerley, viva July 2018. Co-supervised with John SolomosLink opens in a new window.
, Placemaking in the post-functionalist, post-digital and post-creative city: the case study of Ziferblat, viva December 2018. Co-supervised with . Chancellor's Scholarship.
, Learning from The Drum: Toward a decolonization of the arts in the UK, viva January 2020. Co-supervised with . Collaborative ESRC scholarship with .
, Grappling with Difference: An Ethnography of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) in the West Midlands, viva February 2022. Co- supervised with Sivamohan ValluvanLink opens in a new window.
Tana Nolethu ForrestLink opens in a new window, Multiplicitous Existences: Mixed Race Identities in Coventry, viva September 2022. Co-supervised with . Collaborative ESRC scholarship with .
Matthew Abbey, Haunting Migrant, Performing Joy: Imagining Freedom Beyond Sexual Citizenship, viva March 2024. Co-supervised with Nisha Kapoor. 糖心TV Chancellor's International Scholarship.
, Placing Identities: social identifications in a complex neighbourhood, viva November 2025. Co-supervised with John Solomos. 糖心TV Chancellor's International Scholarship.
Publications
Books
(2021) . London: Zed Books/Bloomsbury.
(2017) Jones, H, Gunaratnam, Y, Bhattacharyya, G, Davies, W, Dhaliwal, S, Forkert, K, Jackson, E and Saltus, R, , Manchester: MUP.
(2014) Jones, H and Jackson, E (eds) . London: Routledge/Earthscan.
(2013) , Bristol: The Policy Press. .
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Popovi膰, M. and Jones, H (2025). Academic freedom and (re)building the nation. Culture, Education, and Future, 3(2), 302–330.
(2025) Jones, H and Sirriyeh, A 鈥淪tudent Antiracist Activism and Institutionalised Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in UK Universities鈥�, Critical Social Policy, vol 45, no 4, pp 625-645.
(2025) Jones, H and Kulz, C 鈥淐ulture Wars as a War on the Young: understanding the UK Culture Wars through the lens of young people鈥檚 political and civic resistance鈥�, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.
(2020) "鈥榃e are the European family鈥�: unsettling the role of family in belonging, race, nation and the European project", Open Arts Journal, Issue 8: Brexit Wounds, pp 15-28, (open access)
(2019) "", Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol 42, no 14, pp 2431-2449. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1577474
(2015) Jones, H, Neal, S, Mohan, G, Connell, K, Cochrane, A and Bennett, K 鈥�, The Sociological Review, vol 63 no 3, pp 644-661. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12311
(2015) Neal, S., Bennett, K, Jones, H, Cochrane, A and Mohan, G 鈥溾��, Population, Space and Place, vol 21, no 5, pp 463–475, DOI: 10.1002/psp.1910
(2014) , Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol 37, no 4, pp 605-620, doi: 10.1080/01419870.2013.808758
Book chapters
(2025) "UK immigration policy in a hostile environment" in Jones, B, Norton, P and Hertner, I (eds) , Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 742-761. DOI: 10.4324/9781003471349-38
(2024) "'We Are the European Family': Unsettling the role of family in belonging, race, nation and the European project", in Sredanovic, D and Byrne, B (eds) Brexit and citizens' rights: History, policy, experience, Manchester: MUP, pp.166-190.
(2021) "UK immigration policy in a hostile environment" in Jones, B, Norton, P and Hertner, I (eds) Politics UK 10th Edition, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 726-742.
(2020) Gunaratnam, Y and Jones, H "Same difference? Researching racism and immigration" in Solomos, J (ed) , Abingdon: Routledge, pp.391-405.
(2016) Forkert, K, Jackson, E and Jones, H "Whose Feelings Count? Performance Politics, Emotion and Government Immigration Control" in Jupp, E, Pykett, J and Smith, F (eds) , London: Routledge, pp.177-190.
(2014) Jones, H, Jackson, E and Rhys-Taylor, A "Moving, and being moved" in Jones, H. and Jackson, E. (eds) London: Routledge/Earthscan, pp. 1-14.
(2014) "Uncomfortable feelings: how local belonging works on local policy makers" in Jones, H. and Jackson, E. (eds) London: Routledge/Earthscan, pp. 196-202.
(2014) Jackson, E and Jones, H "Creeping familiarities and cosmopolitan futures" in Jones, H. and Jackson, E. (eds) London: Routledge/Earthscan, pp. 196-202.
(2013) in Marjorie Mayo, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Carol Packham (eds) Community Research for Community Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2013) Jones, H, Jones, V and Camilo Cock, J in Marjorie Mayo, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Carol Packham (eds) Community Research for Community Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2012) in Ruth Ewan, Liberties of the Savoy. London: Bookworks and CREATE London.
(2011) , in Alexander, C and James, M (eds) New Directions, New Voices, London: Runnymede Trust.
Research and policy reports
(2012) . London: Goldsmiths, University of London.
(2012) - United Kingdom. Oxford: COMPAS.
(2011) What makes hosting relationships work? How large and small organisations support each other in the third sector. London: Locality.
(2010) , London: Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
Newspapers, magazines, online
Gunaratnam, Y and Jones, H (2021) 鈥溾��, Society and Space blog, 12 July.
Sirriyeh, A, Ono-George, M, Al-ahdal, T, Singh Gharu, J, Alake, R and Jones, H (2021) "", The Sociological review Blog, 11 February.
(2021), 28 January.
(2018) , The Conversation, 10 December.
(2018) , The Sociological Review Blog, 30 October
(2018) Bhattacharyya, G, Davies, W, Dhaliwal, S, Forkert, K, Gunaratnam, Y, Jackson, E, Jones, H and Saltus, R , Open Democracy, 9 October
(2015) "", Discover Society, issue 27, 1 Dec
(2015) "" The Conversation, 4th September.
(2015) "," The Huffington Post Blog, 21st August [reposted from www.mappingimmigrationcontroversy.com]
(2014) Jones, H, Bhattacharyya, G, Forkert, K, Davies, W, Dhaliwal, S, Gunaratnam, Y, Jackson, E, Saltus, R and Action Against Racism and Xenophobia , Discover Society, 6th May.
(2011) Jones, H and Riley, M , The Guardian, 5 September.
(2011) on Gwen Jones' photoblog.
(2011) "Measuring happiness", Accounting and 糖心TV Magazine, February pp 52–3.
(2010) Jones, H and Jones, G on Gwen Jones' photoblog
(2008) , Street Signs, Autumn.
(2008) Jackson, E, Jones, H and Saha, A, Street Signs, Autumn.
See also various entries on
Media comment
Hannah is available for media comment on her areas of expertise. She has previously been interviewed and provided commentary for TV (, ), radio (multiple local BBC radio stations, , ) and print (, , , , ). She also writes on current events for and the . Hannah can be contacted by email or through the .