Dr Victoria Jones

Assistant Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

I am an interdisciplinary artist, designer and human geography researcher, currently Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. I graduated with a Fine Art BA (hons) from Camberwell School of Art in 1992 and have exhibited since as an installation artist in the UK and internationally.

I retrained in Design for Print in 1997 and practiced as a graphic designer for nine years, developing design for web skills as that new technology emerged and expanded. From 2006, I worked for eight years at Cardiff Metropolitan University as part of the Design Wales strand of PDR an international design research centre. During that time I became an advisor about the design sector for the Welsh Government, sector skills councils, and organisations such as the UK Design Council. This role included two terms as chair of the UK Design Alliance. In 2010 I gained an MA in Design by Practice at University of Wales Newport.

In 2018 I was enabled to pursue a long-term interest in Human Geography theory by gaining an ESRC scholarship to study for a PhD at Durham University which I completed in 2023. I am drawing on my Human Geography knowledge and social research methods experience in my teaching at Northumbria University.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests include:

- the waiting body
- affect, feelings and emotion
- disorientation
- the sensory (in particular olfactory stimuli)
- matter and materiality
- embodied research methods.
1. The waiting body

2. Disorientation

3. Non-work life

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough, Jones, V. 16 Mar 2025, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues, Jones, V. 3 Jul 2022, In: Geohumanities
Timescapes of waiting: spaces of stasis, delay and deferral: edited by Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill | Rodopi, 2019, 238 pp., €94.00/$113.00 (ebook), ISBN: 978-90-04-40712-1; €94.00/$113.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-90-04-40695-7, Jones, V. 12 Jun 2020, In: Social and Cultural Geography
Smell the City: A Participatory Art Installation, Jones, V. 2 Oct 2017, Designing with Smell , New York, United States, Routledge

Qualifications

Geography PhD March 24 2024
Research Methods PGCert June 01 2019
Design Studies MA June 01 2011
Post Graduate Certificate in Education with Qualified Teacher Status PGCE June 01 1999
Design Studies BTEC Advanced Diploma June 01 1998
Fine Art BA (Hons) June 01 1992
Art and Design (other/general) Foundation Diploma June 01 1988
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA 2021