Alison Jones
Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.Jones studied at Auckland for her PhD, entitled "At School I’ve Got a Chance...": social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school". In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal. In the 2019 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and sociology research. Her books include ’At school I’ve Got a Chance’: Pacific Islands and Pākehā girls at school, He Kōrero: Words Between Us: First Māori Pākehā conversations on paper, and Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds which won the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.
