# Alison Jones

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{{short description|New Zealand sociologist}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Alyson Jones|Allison Jones (disambiguation)}}
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'''Barbara Alison Jones''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} is a New Zealand [academic](/source/Academic_staff) who works in the field of [sociology](/source/sociology) of [education](/source/education).<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/a-jones |title=Professor Alison Jones – The University of Auckland |publisher=Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=14 October 2017 |archive-date=27 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527124149/https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/a-jones |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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](/source/William_Oswald_Story) of the British Royal Navy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/this-pakeha-life/ |title=This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |date=2020|accessdate=}}</ref> She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201793398/finn-mccahon-jones-ceramics,-festivals-and-giving-kids-a-voice | title=Finn McCahon-Jones: ceramics, festivals and giving kids a voice |date=16 March 2016 | publisher=Radio New Zealand | accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2020/09/02/alison-jones-an-unsettled-memoir.html | title=Alison Jones: 'Pākehā shouldn't let our collective past be crippling' |date=2 September 2020 | publisher=University of Auckland | accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref>

==Education and career==
Jones studied at [Auckland](/source/Auckland) for her Doctor of Education, entitled "'At School I've Got a Chance...': social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school".<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Jones |first=Alison |year=1986 |type=Doctoral thesis |title="At school I've got a chance...": social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/4479 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/4479}}</ref>

In 2004, Jones was selected to give the [Herbison Lecture](/source/Jean_Herbison) by the [New Zealand Association for Research in Education](/source/New_Zealand_Association_for_Research_in_Education).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-19 |title=Herbison Lecture |url=http://www.nzare.org.nz/herbison-lecture.aspx |access-date=2024-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319155627/http://www.nzare.org.nz/herbison-lecture.aspx |archive-date=19 March 2019 }}</ref> In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/a-jones |title=Professor Alison Jones |publisher=auckland.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref>

In 2014, she won the [Dame Joan Metge medal](/source/Joan_Metge).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/ODQ1Nw== |title=Metge an inspiration for educator Jones |publisher=Waateanews.com |date=28 November 2014 |accessdate=14 October 2017 |archive-date=15 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044756/http://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/ODQ1Nw== |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/dame-joan-metge-medal/recipients-2/ |title=Royal Society Te Apārangi – Recipients |publisher=Royalsociety.org.nz |date= |accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref> She was selected as one of the [Royal Society Te Apārangi's](/source/Royal_Society_Te_Ap%C4%81rangi) 150 women in 150 words in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Alison Jones|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/alison-jones/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221013039/https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/alison-jones/ |archive-date=21 February 2020 |access-date=2021-01-30|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref>

In the [2019 New Year Honours](/source/2019_New_Year_Honours_(New_Zealand)), Jones was appointed a [Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit](/source/Member_of_the_New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit), for services to education and sociology research.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2019 | title=New Year honours list 2019 |date=31 December 2018 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>

==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](/source/Kuni_Kaa_Jenkins) which won the 2018 [Ockham New Zealand Book Award](/source/Ockham_New_Zealand_Book_Awards) for Illustrated Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuai wins Ockham NZ Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction |url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/news/tuai-wins-ockham-nz-book-award-illustrated-non-fiction | publisher=Bridget Williams Books | accessdate=10 July 2020}}</ref> Her 2020 memoir, ''This Pākehā Life,'' was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award (General Nonfiction).<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-03-03|title=Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/03/163470/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303005617/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/03/163470/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=3 March 2021 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/a-jones institutional homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527124149/https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/a-jones |date=27 May 2022 }}

{{Recipients of the Metge Medal}}
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