Skip to content
Ian Jone

Ian Jones

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Social Work and Health

Role

I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work, Care & Community. Currently Course Leader for the Masters in Youth Work Leadership and Practice (PSRB validated) / Masters in Leadership and Practice with Young People Degree MA Youth Work Leadership and Practice

MA responsibilities include Course Leader, Admissions Lead, Placement Coordinator, NEC Coordinator & External Liaison Link (Collaborations & Partnerships), Personal Tutor & Dissertation Supervisor.

I teach the following modules:

  • Research Project/Dissertation
  • Professional Practice (Placement)
  • Work-Based Learning Pedagogy
  • Leadership & Management in Practice

Previously supported teaching across various degrees: FdA Working with Children, Young People and Families; BA Youth Justice; and BA Youth Studies.

Member of the School Employability Working Group.

Previously a staff representative on the School Research Ethics Committee (SREC) 2020-2022.

Lead for the Professional Practitioners Network (PPN).  Youth Professional Practitioner Network

Career overview

Drawing from 30 years practice experience of working with children, young people and families in the statutory, third and charity sectors. Actively participated in various Community Engagement activities, a Co-founder and Director of a Children’s Play Organisation, School Governor, Parish Councillor, and former member of a Scottish charitable organisation offering therapeutic opportunities for children/young people experiencing traumatic, challenging and difficult lives. Discipline professionally qualified, a member of various regional, national and international professional associations and bodies. Currently a Strategic Development Committee Member of PALYCW-Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth & Community Work which develops links/collaborations with a wide range of local/regional/national/international agencies/organisations.

Teaching since 2013 joined NTU in 2020 as Senior Lecturer working across the portfolio of 'Youth' degrees. Current research interests/areas include child welfare, kinship foster care, therapeutic practice models for working with children (e.g. DDP – Dyadic Development Psychotherapy), social pedagogy, informal pedagogy, and the notion of the ‘pracademic’ in teaching.

Part way through PhD research study focusing upon contemporary child welfare practice in England drawing upon the notion of Social Pedagogy as a possible conceptually based approach for practice and improved outcomes for children and young people.

"‘Are children's welfare needs, especially those in crisis, being fully met?' A phenomenological mixed-methods exploratory study of the ‘Children's Workforce’ consideration of social pedagogy."

Research areas

I am interested in a range of social justice areas including children, young people and families. Key themes of interest include:

  • Informal / Social Education Pedagogies
  • Social Pedagogy
  • Practitioner Research Methodologies
  • Kinship Foster Care
  • The 'Pracademic' in HE Teaching.

Member of:

  • Centre for Policy, Citizenship & Society Research Centre (CPCS) Centre for Policy, Citizenship and Society (CPCS)
  • Youth Research Group Youth Research Group
  • Citizenship, Democracy and Transformation Research Group (CDT)
  • Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research Group (CCJ)
  • Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families (NCCYPF)
  • School of Social Sciences Practice Pathway Panel

Current Research Study:

"‘Are children's welfare needs, especially those in crisis, being fully met?' .A phenomenological mixed-methods exploratory study of the ‘Children's Workforce’ consideration of social pedagogy."

Other Current Research:

  • Proposal: 'Kinship Care and Contact' - updating and expanding the typology of 'contact' in relation to recent technological developments.
  • Proposal: Exploring DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) a model of therapy created by Dan Hughes that was created specifically for children who have experienced developmental trauma. Collaboration with Local Authority Social Work Service.
  • Proposal: Exploring the notion of the 'pracademic' within the HE teaching environment.

External activity

External Examiner: University of Bradford – BA (hons) Working with Children, Young People & Families

Strategic Development Committee (SDC) member of the Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth & Community Work (PALYCW) TAG:PALYCW (tagpalycw.org)

Reviewer - Education Sciences (ISSN: 2227-7102): Education Sciences | An Open Access Journal from MDPI International peer reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI.

Reviewer - Youth (ISSN: 2673-995X): Youth | An Open Access Journal from MDPI International, peer reviewed, open access journal on education, sociology, economics, cultural studies and other social perspectives of youth and young adulthood published quarterly online by MDPI.

Reviewer - IJERPH (ISSN: 1660-4601): International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | An Open Access Journal from MDPI, an interdisciplinary, open access journal published semi-monthly online. It covers Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Health, Occupational Hygiene, Health Economic and Global Health Research, etc

Reviewer – Teacher Education (MDPI) Teacher Education

Reviewer – Behavioural Sciences (MDPI) Behavioural Sciences is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, behavioural biology and behavioural genetics.

Reviewer - Healthcare (MDPI) (ISSN 2227-9032) Healthcare is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on health care systems, industry, technology, policy, and regulation.

Publications

Jones, I.D,; Brady, G. (2022) Informal Education Pedagogy Transcendence from the ‘Academy’ to Society in the Current and Post COVID Environment. IN Alldred, P & Howard, F (Eds.)  Education Sciences, Educating Informal Educators (Special Issue Print). Link to Book Chapter: https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-4222-5

Jones, I.D,; Brady, G. (2022) Informal Education Pedagogy Transcendence from the ‘Academy’ to Society in the Current and Post COVID Environment. International Journal of Education Sciences. Special Issue, Educating Informal Educators, 12, 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12010037

Jones, I. (2021) The Journey So Far: The Pandemic, Life-changes, and what happened to my Haltung? Social Pedagogy Development Network (SPDN) Webinar. Exploring Social Pedagogy Concepts during Turbulent Times. Presenting auto-biographical case study of Academic and Kinship Carer role in the pandemic.

Jones, I. (2019) What does social pedagogy mean to to you? Social Pedagogy Professional Association (SPPA) Annual Conference. Workshop delivery - bringing together stakeholders, trainers, researchers, organizations and those interested in the notion of social pedagogy and its uses. Lincoln.

Jones, I. (2019) Children's Workforce understanding of Social Pedagogy in England - an exploratory study. Research Poster Presentation - Postgraduate Research Society Conference. Leeds Beckett University.

Jones, I. (2018) Comparative Analysis of Research Fields and Designs.  University Centre - Bradford College Symposium.

Jones, I. and Rodgers-Gray, T. (2016) The Faculty Research Centre, 'REFLECT' and the key themes of social pedagogy, safeguarding and comparative practice through international collaboration. "The Bradford College Spring Colloquium - Exploring the Bradford Context". Conference in sharing and celebrating the scholarship and research portfolio of the faculty as 'teacher-scholars'; and showing our role as contributors to the social, economic and cultural life of people and communities locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Jones, I. (2016) Social Pedagogy, Youth and Social Transformations, a UK context. International Conference on Social Pedagogy: To explore the theoretical concept of social pedagogy, comparative practice and border pedagogy from a UK perspective. Abstract and full paper published in E-Book. University of Girona, Spain.

Jones, I. (2016) Social Pedagogy, Comparative Practice and Border Pedagogy. Children and Young People in a Changing World: Action and Participation.  Liverpool Hope University.

Jones, I and Koral, N. (2015) Questioning Teaching and Learning in Youth and Community Work, New Communities of Practice - where should the craft of youth work fit?  'Questioning Paradigms in Youth and Community Work – Imagining a Different Future', Annual Conference: Education Otherwise – Creating Communities of Practice. Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work.

Jones, I and Roders-Gray, T. (2015) Recognising Heterogeneity and its Impact.  University Centre - Bradford College. The findings of the three scholarly activities in relation to ‘Internationalisation: Comparative Practice in Social Care, Scandinavia and the UK.’

Jones, I. (2015) The Future Challenges both in NGO, Youth Work and Cultural Management, to try to find answers to the current and future questions. 'Future in Our Hands’ Humak University of Applied Sciences, Finland.