Victoria J E Jones is an artist working in Wales about artworks exhibitions talking & writing research blog contact
 
Research Interests
Waiting, affect, the sensorial and materiality.

In 2024 I completed a non-practice based full-time ESRC funded Human Geography PhD at Durham University
 
\\'Waiting through Furlough:
A Geography of Disorientation\\'

My PhD thesis tells a story of waiting. More specifically it investigates the lived experience of those who waited through furlough, in the UK as part of the UK government initiative the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.The thesis foregrounds the embodied feelings and detached worklife relation experienced by those furloughed, and how they chose to narrate their experience. It draws on 35 in depth interviews and an extended attention to the spatial, temporal, corporeal and felt dimensions of waiting through literatures of affect, waiting and queer phenomenology. In doing so, the thesis argues that the detachment from worklife and its rhythms made life disorientating for those waiting through furlough. As such the thesis is also a story of disorientation.

 

 
 
Waiting room Victoria J E Jones

Academic Writing
 

Jones, V. J. E. (2025) Living a Shadow Life: The Disorientations of Losing Orientation and Agency Whilst Waiting Through Furlough. Transactions of the British Geographers. DOI: 10.1111/tran.70003

Jones, V. J. E. (2023) Waiting Through Furlough: A Geography of Disorientation. Durham University https://etheses.dur.ac.uk

Jones, V. J. E. (2022) Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. GeoHumanities. DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.2014928

Jones, V. J. E. (2020) Timescapes of waiting: spaces of stasis, delay and deferral. Social & Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2020.1736890 (book review)

Jones, V. J. E. (2017) Smell the City: A Participatory Art Installation. In: Henshaw, V.Medway, D. McClean, K (eds) Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques And Challenges. Routledge: New York. Pp. 9-18

Conference Papers (selected)
 

Jones, V. J. E. 2024. Waiting in \\'The Queue\\': A Geography of Disorientation. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London. 28 August 2024.

Jones, V. J. E. 2023. Underperformativity: Emotional Impotentiality as Self Care. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London. 30 August 2023.

Jones, V. J. E. 2021. Feeling, Sensating in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Presented at: Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses, Concordia University. Virtual conference. 6 May 2021.

Jones, V. J. E. 2021. Feeling and Writing in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Presented at: American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting. Virtual conference. 7 April 7 2021.

Jones, V. J. E. 2021. Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Presented at: The Material Life of Time. Virtual conference. 16 March 2021.

Jones, V. J. E. 2019. Moments of Collective Delight: A Paper of Two Halves Plus Extra Time. Presented at: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London. 28 August 2018.

Brigstocke, J & Jones, V. J. E. 2018. Harena: Sand, Suspension, and Aesthetics. Presented at: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Cardiff University, Cardiff. 31 August 2018.

Jones, V. J. E. 2015. In Search of Vibrant Matter: A Polar Exploration. Presented at: Third Annual Land2/ PLaCE , International Postgraduate Event Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design, Dundee. 30 January 2015

Jones, V. J. E. 2014. Smell The City a Participatory Narrative: or Eight Lumps of Lard Down the Pub. Presented at: WIRAD, Emerging Researcher Conference, Cardiff. 12 September 2014

Jones, V. J. E. 2014. Smell The City a Participatory Narrative: or Eight Lumps of Lard Down the Pub. Presented at: Design Practices and Principles. University of British Colombia, Vancouver. 17 January 2014
all works copyright Victoria J E Jones 1992 - 2025