Balancing the Scales: Learning to Be a Retired Geographer at the Edge of the World

Brief Biography

Roy Jones, PhD (Manchester) is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where he has worked since moving to Australia in 1970. From 1996–2001 he was Head of the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages, and from 2007–12, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Humanities. He is an historical geographer with particular interest in the areas of heritage and tourism. He has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed publications, including the Australian chapter in The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity and the “Heritage and Culture” entry in The Elsevier Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was Human Geography Editor of Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers 2001–9 and is a Steering Committee Member of the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems 2012–16. In 2013, he was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Australian Geographers.