Owain Jones FGS (born 1957, Newport, Wales) is a Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University (UK). He was previously Reader in Cultural Geography: Place, Nature and Landscape (previously Senior Research Fellow) at the Countryside & Community Research Institute (which is a joint Institute of the Universities of the West of England and Gloucestershire and the Royal Agricultural College and Hartpury College) and member of staff of the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England. He works mainly in cultural geography and has published a number of peer-reviewed research articles in international geography and related social science journals. He has two main areas of research and writing interests; geographies of nature-culture and children's geographies. Within the former he focuses upon animal geographies, place/landscape/dwelling, and tidal geographies (and temporal rhythms of landscape). Biography Jones undertook a BA in 3D Design/Construction at Bristol Polytechnic, graduating in 1981, an MA /Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Policy and Geography, University of the West of England, 1993, MSc. in Society and Space, University of Bristol, 1993, MA in Creative Writing, BSUC, 2004 and completed his PhD in the Dept of Geography, University of Bristol in 1997. He has conducted research variously funded by the ESRC, AHRC, and RCUK (RELU). He has also written on geography, non-representational theory and pragmatism. and geography and memory. His work is of significance in the area of geographies nature-culture. That is – a view of nature-society relations which seeks to understand the interdependency between the human and non-human world. This draws upon, and contributes to, a range of theories including Actor Network Theory (ANT); dwelling; hybridity; new dialectics; new approaches to place; and new ecologies. The importance of his work is reflected in the selection of an extract from the book "Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place, for the “Nature” section of The Cultural Geography Reader edited by Oakes and Price. This extract sits alongside other seminal writings on nature by Raymond Williams, Clarence J. Glacken, Alexander Wilson and others. Because of his work in this field, Owain Jones was selected to write the "Nature-Culture" and "Dwelling" entries for the International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Owain Jones's influential 1995 paper on discourses of rurality has been recently republished as part of the Journal of Rural Studies''' 25th anniversary. He has also been an invited speaker