Research
My latest work concerns social robotics in the context of social psychology as well as science and technology studies. Earlier and ongoing theoretical work involves comparisons of Jungian, dialogical, narrative and social constructionist perspectives on the self. Previous research investigated children's perceptions of school and mental health issues, and the social construction of the 'pupil with problems' on British education.
Supervision
I welcome PhD applicants interested in qualitative research concerning human-robot relationships and/or identity constructions in a variety of settings.
Qualifications
1996: PhD, Cardiff, University of Wales. “Perceptions of school among primary school children with and without behaviour problems”.
1989: BA Joint Hons. Psychology and Education, Cardiff, University of Wales
Academic positions
1997 – present: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader. Cardiff University School of Social Sciences
1993 – 1995: Lecturer. Glamorgan University
2020
- Jones, R. 2020. The snake in the mandala: Dialogical aspects of Jung’s ‘A study in the process of individuation’. Journal of Analytical Psychology 62(2), pp. 389-407. (10.1111/1468-5922.12593)
- Jones, R. 2020. The snake in the mandala: dialogical aspects of Jung’s ‘A study in the process of individuation’. Journal of Analytical Psychology 65(2), pp. 389-407.
2019
- Jones, R. 2019. Concerning the apperception of robot-assisted childcare. Philosophy & Technology 32(3), pp. 445-456. (10.1007/s13347-018-0306-6)
- Jones, R. 2019. Dialogicality and culture of psychology in a study of individuation. Culture and Psychology (10.1177/1354067X19871208)
- Jones, R. 2019. Dialogues with a talking skull that refuses to speak: Jungian and narrative psychologies. In: Jones, R. and Gardner, L. eds. Narratives of Individuation. Routledge, pp. 8-31.
- Jones, R. 2019. Introduction. In: Jones, R. and Gardner, L. eds. Narratives of Individuation. Routledge, pp. 1-7.
- Jones, R. and Gardner, L. 2019. Narratives of individuation. Routledge.
- Jones, R. 2019. Jung, science, and technology. In: Mills, J. ed. Jung and Philosophy. Routledge, pp. 289-304.
2018
- Jones, R. 2018. After postmodernism, technologism. Educational Philosophy and Theory 50(14), pp. 1619-1620. (10.1080/00131857.2018.1461398)
- Jones, R. 2018. Engineering cheerful robots: An ethical consideration. Information 9(7), pp. 152-163. (10.3390/info9070152)
- Jones, R. 2018. The stream of desire and Jung’s concept of psychic energy. In: Bishop, P. and Gardner, L. eds. The Ecstatic and the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry. London: Routledge, pp. 19-27.
- Jones, R. 2018. Philip K Dick's androids looked like humans - but real world robots may soon feel empathy, too. The Conversation
- Jones, R. 2018. Human-Robot Relationships. In: Bess, M. and Pasulka, D. W. eds. Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 365-375.
2017
- Jones, R. A. 2017. What makes a robot ‘social’?. Social Studies of Science 47(4), pp. 556-579. (10.1177/0306312717704722)
- Jones, R. 2017. Towards dialogic epistemology: the problem of the text. Qualitative Research 17(4), pp. 457-472. (10.1177/1468794116671986)
- Jones, R. 2017. Archaic man meets a marvellous automaton: posthumanism, social robots, archetypes. Journal of Analytical Psychology 62(3), pp. 338-355.
- Jones, R. 2017. Representations of childcare robots as a controversial issue. International Journal of Mechanical Aerospace Industrial Mechatronic and Manufacturing Engineering 11(8), pp. 1415-1419.
2016
- Jones, R. A. 2016. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it?” An inquiry concerning the understanding of child-robot interaction.. In: Seibt, J., Nørskov, M. and Schack Andersen, S. eds. What Social Robots Can and Should Do. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol. 290. IOS Press, pp. 89-98., (10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-89)
2015
- Jones, R. A. 2015. Personhood and social robotics: A psychological consideration. Explorations in Social Psychology. London and New York: Routledge.
2014
- Jones, R. A. 2014. Writerly dynamics and culturally situated authentic human existence in Amalia Kahana-Carmon's theory of creative writing. Culture and Psychology 20(1), pp. 118-144. (10.1177/1354067X13515935)
- Jones, R. A. ed. 2014. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Jones, R. A. 2014. Vicissitudes of a science-complex. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 50-69.
- Jones, R. A. 2014. Introduction. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-6.
- Saban, M. and Jones, R. A. 2014. Dialogue 1: Placing Jung. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 153-155.
- Jones, R. A. and Gaist, B. J. 2014. Dialogue 4: Wisdom and archetype. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 174-178.
- Cambray, J., Dunlap, P. T. and Jones, R. A. 2014. Dialogue 5: Ways forward. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Jung and the question of science. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 179-184.
2013
- Jones, R. A. 2013. Relationalism through social robotics. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 43(4), pp. 405-424. (10.1111/jtsb.12016)
- Jones, R. A. 2013. Jung's "Psychology with the Psyche" and the behavioral sciences. Behavioral Sciences 3(3), pp. 408-417. (10.3390/bs3030408)
2012
- Jones, R. A. 2012. On the "art and science" of personal transformation: some critical reflections. Educational Philosophy and Theory 44(1), pp. 18-26. (10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00647.x)
2011
- Jones, R. A. 2011. Storytelling scholars and the mythic child: Rhetorical aesthetics in two case studies. Culture & Psychology 17(3), pp. 339-358. (10.1177/1354067X11408135)
- Jones, R. A. 2011. Introduction. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Body, Mind and Healing After Jung: A Space of Questions. London: Routledge, pp. 1-13.
- Jones, R. A. 2011. The ‘child’ motif in theorizing about embodied subjectivity. In: Jones, R. A. ed. Body, Mind and Healing After Jung: A Space of Questions. London: Routledge, pp. 79-93.
- Jones, R. A. and Hermans, H. J. 2011. The dialogical and the imaginal. In: Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. eds. Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 12-29., (10.1057/9780230307490)
- Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. 2011. Introduction. In: Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. eds. Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13., (10.1057/9780230307490)
- Jones, R. A. 2011. Epilogue. In: Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. eds. Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 220-226., (10.1057/9780230307490)
- Jones, R. A. 2011. Fiction and the 'uncanny valley' of self-confrontation. In: Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. eds. Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 117-133., (10.1057/9780230307490)
- Jones, R. A. and Morioka, M. eds. 2011. Jungian and dialogical self perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2010
- Jones, R. A. 2010. Is a typology of dialogical selves a viable proposition?. Presented at: 6th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Athens, Greece, 30 September - 3 October, 2010.
- Jones, R. A. 2010. "Talking brought me here": affordances of fiction for the narrative self. Theory & Psychology 20(4), pp. 549-567. (10.1177/0959354310361406)
- Stein, M. and Jones, R. A. eds. 2010. Cultures and identities in transition: Jungian perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Stein, M. and Jones, R. A. 2010. Editors' introduction. In: Stein, M. and Jones, R. A. eds. Cultures and Identities in Transition: Jungian Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 1-5.
- Jones, R. A. ed. 2010. Body, mind and healing after Jung: a space of questions. New York, NY: Routledge.
2009
- Jones, R. A. 2009. The ‘child’ as a rhetorical device in theorising about body and soul. Presented at: Psyche, Power, and Society: The 2nd International Conference of the International Association of Jungian Studies, Cardiff, UK, 9-12 July 2009.
2008
- Lambert, P.et al. 2008. The social context of school bullying: evidence from a survey of children in South Wales. Research Papers in Education 23(3), pp. 269-291. (10.1080/02671520701809866)
- Jones, R. A.et al. 2008. Introduction: a debt to Jung. In: Jones, R. A. et al. eds. Education and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 1-14.
- Jones, R. A. 2008. Storytelling, socialization and individuation. In: Jones, R. A. et al. eds. Education and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 78-95.
- Jones, R. A. et al. eds. 2008. Education and imagination: post-Jungian perspectives. London: Routledge.
2007
- Jones, R. A. 2007. A Discovery of Meaning: The Case of C. G. Jung's House Dream. Culture & Psychology 13(2), pp. 203-230. (10.1177/1354067X07076596)
- Jones, R. A. 2007. Jung, psychology, postmodernity. London: Routledge.
2006
- Jones, R. 2006. A discovery of meaning: the case of C. G. Jung’s house dream. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2005
- Jones, R. A. 2005. Identity Commitments in Personal Stories of Mental Illness on the Internet. Narrative Inquiry 15(2), pp. 293-322. (10.1075/ni.15.2.06jon)
2004
- Jones, R. 2004. Identity commitments in personal stories of mental illness on the Internet. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2002
- Jones, R. A. 2002. The Necessity of the Unconscious. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32(3), pp. 345-366. (10.1111/1468-5914.00191)
- Self and identity
- Developmental psychology
- Individual differences
My latest work concerns social robotics in the context of social psychology as well as science and technology studies. Earlier and ongoing theoretical work involves comparisons of Jungian, dialogical, narrative and social constructionist perspectives on the self. Previous research investigated children's perceptions of school and mental health issues, and the social construction of the 'pupil with problems' on British education.