Lecturer in Landscape History

Contact Details

Biography

I studied History and Archaeology at Exeter before moving on to Oxford where I completed my DPhil in 1994.  I worked for five years for the Sussex Archaeological Society before taking up a research fellowship at Birmingham in 2000 working on the Whittlewood Project.  In 2001 this project moved to Leicester where I joined the Centre for English Local History.  Briefly escaping to Cardiff in 2005 as a Lecturer in Archaeology I returned to ELH as Lecturer in Landscape History the following year and have been here ever since.

I have one partner whose meteoric academic rise puts my own paltry achievements into their true context, one cat with whom I can at least still converse, two children who appear to be taking after their mother, eight chickens for eggs, and cricket for solace.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

PhD Supervision

The medieval countryside, c. 400-1500; settlement and landscape change; perceptions of landscape and the natural world; individual, group and regional identity; interdisciplinary approaches to the medieval landscape, particularly integration of history and archaeology

Teaching

• HS2233 Society and Spaces
• HS3741/42 Medieval Society and the Natural World 
• HS7104/24 Landscape History 
• HS7195 Fieldcourse 

Administrative Responsibilities

Most Recent Publications

1. R. Jones, P. Cullen, and D.N. Parsons, Thorps in a Changing Landscape (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011).
2. R. Jones, ‘The village and the butterfly: nucleation out of chaos and complexity’, Landscapes 11.1 (2010), pp. 25-46.
3. R. Jones and C. Dyer (eds), Deserted Villages Revisited (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010).
4. R. Jones, ‘Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England’, in C. Dyer and R. Jones (eds), Deserted Villages Revisited (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010), pp. 8-27.