at a number of major international academic conferences on rurality, human-animal interactions, and geographies of forests, places and landscapes. In the area of children's geographies Owain Jones has pioneered the idea of the "otherness of children". This has been taken up by other academics such as Karen Lury. Owain Jones is also founder and Chair of Priston Festival, a community art and music festival near the city of Bath, Somerset, south west England. Current academic positions and affiliations Chair of the Royal Geographical Society Research Group on Children, Youth and Families Committee member of the Royal Geographical Society Cultural and Social Geography Research Group Associate Editor of the journal of Children's Geographies. Associate member of Land2 (a UK based practice-led research network of artists and academics with interests in landscape / place-oriented art practice). Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Research Group committee member Recent publications by year since 2000 Book. Jones O., and Cloke P., (2002) Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place, Oxford: Berg, 252pp. Val Steeves and Owain Jones (2010) Editorial: Surveillance and Children. Surveillance & Society 7(3/4): 187–191. Jones O., ‘The Breath of the Moon’: The Rhythmic and Affective Time-spaces of UK Tides, in T. Edensor (ed) Geographies of Rhythm, Oxford: Ashgate, pp 189–203. Jones O., 'Dwelling' in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, London: Elsevier, vol 3: 266–272. Jones O., 'Nature-Cultures' in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, London: Elsevier, vol 7: 309–323. Jones O., 'After Nature: Entangled Worlds’ in N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. Liverman and B. Rhoads, (eds.), A Companion to Environmental Geography Oxford: Blackwell Publishing pp 294–312. Jones O. 'Approaching the otherness of childhood; methodological considerations', in Van Blerk, L. and Kesby, M. (eds) Doing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People, London: Routledge, pp 195–212. Jones O., and Cloke P., ‘Orchard’ in T. S. Oakes and P. L. Price (eds) The Cultural Geography Reader'', London: Routledge, pp 232–240. Jones O., and Cloke P., ‘Non-human agencies: tree is place and time’, in C. Knappett and L. Malafouris, (eds.) Material Agency: towards a non-anthropocentric approach, Guilford: Springer. pp 79–96. Jones O., 'Of Trees and Trails: place in a globalised world’, in N. Clark, D. Massey, and P. Sarre (eds.) Material Geographies: A World in the Making, London: Sage in association with the Open University, pp 214–264.