Kip Jones

KIP JONES, an American by birth, has been studying and working in the UK for more than 20 years.
Under the umbrella term of 'arts-led research', his main efforts have involved developing tools
from the arts and humanities for use by social scientists in research and its impact on a wider
public or a Perfomative Social Science.

Jones was Reader in Performative Social Science and Qualitative Research at
Bournemouth University for 15 years.
He is now a Visiting Scholar and and an independent author and scholar.

Kip has produced films and written many articles for academic journals and authored chapters
for books on topics such as masculinity, ageing and rurality, and older LGBT citizens.
Jones' most recent work involves working with Generation Z youth to tell their stories using
social media.
His ground-breaking use of qualitative methods, including Auto-fiction, biography
and auto-ethnography, and the use of tools from the arts in social science research
and dissemination are well-known.

Jones acted as Author and Executive Producer of
the award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, funded by Research Councils UK.
The film is now available for free viewing on the Internet
and has been viewed by more than 14,000 people in 150 countries.

Areas of expertise
• Close relationships, culture and ethnicity
• Social psychology, sociology
• Ageing, self and identity
• Interpersonal processes, personality,
individual differences,
social networks, prejudice and stereotyping
• Sexuality and sexual orientation
• Creativity and the use of the
arts in Social Science

Media experience
His work has been reported widely
in the media, including:
BBC Radio 4,BBC TV news,Times
Higher Education, Sunday New
York Times, International
Herald-Tribune and The Independent.

Sunday, 23 February 2020

Call for Chapter Ideas for a Book on Performative Social Science





I am retiring at the end of February from Bournemouth University. My plan is to do some writing that I have been meaning to get to for some time.  One of the discussions with a publisher is a book about Performative Social Science.

More a doer than a talker, I would like this potential book to be about DOING Performative Social Science (perhaps even the title?). As a subtext possibly: “Creativity in doing research and communicating it to an audience”.  The creativity could be inspiration from any of the arts; that audience can be readers, users, viewers, listeners, participants, communities, etc.

At this early stage, I would be interested in hearing ideas for contributions from you for Chapters for the book. Your Chapter should be an example of how you have used the wide principles of PSS and its aesthetic (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294887963_Performative_Social_Science) in a project of your own – be it research, dissemination, performance, exhibition, community action, publication, etc.

If you would like your idea to be considered in my discussions with the publisher, please send me a short email with your thoughts (nothing too formal yet), and perhaps the area of the arts that informs it.

PLEASE REPLY TO ME AT KIPWORLD@GMAIL.COM ONLY!
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