Rebecca L Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3920758 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca L Jones |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca L |
| APELLIDO | Jones |
| FIRMA | JONES R L |
| AFILIACIONES | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9284-7425 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Exploring the Determinants of Quality of Life for LGBTQ + People
Despite recent initiatives to understand and respond better to LGBTQ + lives in the UK, there remains a lack of detailed knowledge about the needs and experiences of the LGBTQ + population at an everyday level, including drivers of quality of life, and its association with mental health. This paper draws on findings from the UK dataset in the Global Pride survey collected in 2022. Data from 172 individuals aged 19–77 from diverse sexual and gende…
LGBT Research Across Seven Countries
Drawing the charmed circle in designing sexual and reproductive health and rights education
Designing and delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) curricula demands much of educators, who must juggle pedagogic, political, social and institutional priorities alongside managing the affect of learners, colleagues and themselves. Reflexivity is critical if SRHR education is to engage effectively with debated and contested topics and develop learning resources that are appropriate to diverse learners. In this paper, I argu…
A Systematic Review of Psychological Interventions for Sustaining Intimate Relationships in Older Age
Introduction This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate existing evidence on the effectiveness of psychological and therapeutic interventions for supporting intimacy, including emotional and physical affection, in adults aged 65 and older. Methods Following PRISMA guidelines, a systematic search was conducted across relevant electronic databases and cross-referencing for studies published up to September 2025. Screening and selection we…
Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs
Two fast-track child and family social work training programs have been established in England — Step Up to Social Work and Frontline. Trainees’ financial support is far higher than for mainstream social work degrees. One of the reasons claimed for setting up these programs is addressing retention, although critics (of Frontline) predicted graduates would not stay in social work. A 4-year study assessed retention and reasons for leaving social wo…
Courage to cobble something new”
Critical gerontologists have called for more diverse and inclusive visions of a good old age, and especially for imaginings that do not depend on health, wealth and heterosexuality. They have suggested that LGBTQ people, alongside other marginalized groups, may have particular contributions to make to the project of reimagining ageing. In this paper, we bring together this work with Jose Muñoz's concept of 'cruising utopia' to examine possibiliti…
Exploring Changing Occupation Dynamics at the Lakeside Cave Site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe
This special issue focuses on care in late life and at the end of life for people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, from an international perspective. There is a growing body of research demonstrating that LGBT people are a diverse and under-researched new ageing population, but less attention has been paid to the specific issues connected to care in late life and at the end of life. This Special Issue makes a contribution t…
Revisioning ageing futures
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures
Imagining feminist old age
Later Life Sex and Rubin’s ‘Charmed Circle’
Gayle Rubin’s now classic concept of the ‘charmed circle’ has been much used by scholars of sexuality to discuss the ways in which some types of sex are privileged over others. In this paper, I apply the concept of the charmed circle to a new topic—later life—in order both to add to theory about later life sex and to add an older-age lens to thinking about sex hierarchies. Traditional discursive resources around older people’s sexual activities, …
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and em…
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and empirical data to provide both conceptual knowled…
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Intersections of ageing, gender, sexualities
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to understand how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. Gender and sexuality are recognised as key factors in determining a person?s experience of later life but little research has been done into how age, gender and sexualities work together and with other divisions, including ethnicity and class, to form a range of inequalities and opportunities for people as they ag…
Life course perspectives on (bi)sexuality
Scholars of sexuality have known for many years that sexual identity claims do not map neatly on to sexual histories. However, many studies continue to use currently claimed sexual identities as the basis for data collection and analysis, which can erase this complexity, particularly in relation to bisexuality. This article identifies four methodological techniques that help to operationalise theoretical sensitivity around the complex relationshi…
Research note
This research note argues that quantitative survey data on Africa, welcomed by most researchers in public health, economics, and political science, can make an important contribution to the work of historians and anthropologists, especially if it is open to critical analysis. The research note describes the 2012–13 ‘Knowing Each Other’ survey on religion among the Yoruba of south-west Nigeria, which provides strong evidence for a slow shift from …
Guidelines for Researching and Writing About Bisexuality
We are a group of researchers and writers who work on bisexuality, organise bisexual research conferences, and take part in discussions on many bisexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) academic forums. We have noticed, over the years, many problematic tendencies in research that focuses on, or includes, bisexuals. We therefore felt that it would be useful to come up with a list of “good practice” guidelines for people research…
BiReCon
This article charts the past, present and future of the BiReCon event, which was the inspiration for this special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality. We provide the historical context for such an academic conference on bisexuality, and the key research which had been conducted on bisexuality in the UK prior to this. The aims of the 2010 BiReCon event are summarized, and a brief overview of the event is presented. Finally, we chart some potential…
Imagining Bisexual Futures
Gerontologists have long noted that people find it hard to imagine themselves growing old. Previous research has also shown that, despite the increased variability and diversity of postmodern life courses, people still tend to project normative life courses, centering on marriage, childbearing and grandchildren. It has been argued that this tendency, combined with the scarcity of representations of older queer people, creates particular difficult…
Older people’ talking as if they are not older people
That’s very rude, I shouldn’t be telling you that”
This paper discusses narratives created during interviews with 23 older women (aged 61–90) about their experiences of sex and intimate relationships in later life. For analytic purposes, the paper understands narratives to be neither pre-existing nor a simple reflection of experience, but to be made moment-by-moment in the interaction between parties drawing on available cultural resources. Attention to the interactional situation in which the na…
Subjects Without History
Journal Article Subjects Without History Get access Martin Postle : Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Subject Pictures ( Cambridge University Press : Cambridge , 1995 ), 85 b & w illns, 16 colour plates, hardback ISBN 0-521-42066-0 , £45. ROBERT W. JONES ROBERT W. JONES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.2.105 Published: 01…
Such Strange Unwonted Softness to Excuse
Journal Article ‘Such Strange Unwonted Softness to Excuse’: Judgement and Indulgence in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll Get access ROBERT W. JONES ROBERT W. JONES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 29–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/18.1.29 Published: 01 March 1995
Older people’ talking as if they are not older people
Guidelines for Researching and Writing About Bisexuality
We are a group of researchers and writers who work on bisexuality, organise bisexual research conferences, and take part in discussions on many bisexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) academic forums. We have noticed, over the years, many problematic tendencies in research that focuses on, or includes, bisexuals. We therefore felt that it would be useful to come up with a list of “good practice” guidelines for people research…
That’s very rude, I shouldn’t be telling you that”
This paper discusses narratives created during interviews with 23 older women (aged 61–90) about their experiences of sex and intimate relationships in later life. For analytic purposes, the paper understands narratives to be neither pre-existing nor a simple reflection of experience, but to be made moment-by-moment in the interaction between parties drawing on available cultural resources. Attention to the interactional situation in which the na…
Imagining Bisexual Futures
Gerontologists have long noted that people find it hard to imagine themselves growing old. Previous research has also shown that, despite the increased variability and diversity of postmodern life courses, people still tend to project normative life courses, centering on marriage, childbearing and grandchildren. It has been argued that this tendency, combined with the scarcity of representations of older queer people, creates particular difficult…
Imagining feminist old age
BiReCon
This article charts the past, present and future of the BiReCon event, which was the inspiration for this special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality. We provide the historical context for such an academic conference on bisexuality, and the key research which had been conducted on bisexuality in the UK prior to this. The aims of the 2010 BiReCon event are summarized, and a brief overview of the event is presented. Finally, we chart some potential…
Courage to cobble something new”
Critical gerontologists have called for more diverse and inclusive visions of a good old age, and especially for imaginings that do not depend on health, wealth and heterosexuality. They have suggested that LGBTQ people, alongside other marginalized groups, may have particular contributions to make to the project of reimagining ageing. In this paper, we bring together this work with Jose Muñoz's concept of 'cruising utopia' to examine possibiliti…
Later Life Sex and Rubin’s ‘Charmed Circle’
Gayle Rubin’s now classic concept of the ‘charmed circle’ has been much used by scholars of sexuality to discuss the ways in which some types of sex are privileged over others. In this paper, I apply the concept of the charmed circle to a new topic—later life—in order both to add to theory about later life sex and to add an older-age lens to thinking about sex hierarchies. Traditional discursive resources around older people’s sexual activities, …
Research note
This research note argues that quantitative survey data on Africa, welcomed by most researchers in public health, economics, and political science, can make an important contribution to the work of historians and anthropologists, especially if it is open to critical analysis. The research note describes the 2012–13 ‘Knowing Each Other’ survey on religion among the Yoruba of south-west Nigeria, which provides strong evidence for a slow shift from …
Exploring Changing Occupation Dynamics at the Lakeside Cave Site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures
The Art of Self Deception
Such Strange Unwonted Softness to Excuse
Journal Article ‘Such Strange Unwonted Softness to Excuse’: Judgement and Indulgence in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll Get access ROBERT W. JONES ROBERT W. JONES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 29–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/18.1.29 Published: 01 March 1995
Subjects Without History
Journal Article Subjects Without History Get access Martin Postle : Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Subject Pictures ( Cambridge University Press : Cambridge , 1995 ), 85 b & w illns, 16 colour plates, hardback ISBN 0-521-42066-0 , £45. ROBERT W. JONES ROBERT W. JONES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.2.105 Published: 01…
That’s very rude, I shouldn’t be telling you that”
This paper discusses narratives created during interviews with 23 older women (aged 61–90) about their experiences of sex and intimate relationships in later life. For analytic purposes, the paper understands narratives to be neither pre-existing nor a simple reflection of experience, but to be made moment-by-moment in the interaction between parties drawing on available cultural resources. Attention to the interactional situation in which the na…
Older people’ talking as if they are not older people
BiReCon
This article charts the past, present and future of the BiReCon event, which was the inspiration for this special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality. We provide the historical context for such an academic conference on bisexuality, and the key research which had been conducted on bisexuality in the UK prior to this. The aims of the 2010 BiReCon event are summarized, and a brief overview of the event is presented. Finally, we chart some potential…
Imagining Bisexual Futures
Gerontologists have long noted that people find it hard to imagine themselves growing old. Previous research has also shown that, despite the increased variability and diversity of postmodern life courses, people still tend to project normative life courses, centering on marriage, childbearing and grandchildren. It has been argued that this tendency, combined with the scarcity of representations of older queer people, creates particular difficult…
Guidelines for Researching and Writing About Bisexuality
We are a group of researchers and writers who work on bisexuality, organise bisexual research conferences, and take part in discussions on many bisexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) academic forums. We have noticed, over the years, many problematic tendencies in research that focuses on, or includes, bisexuals. We therefore felt that it would be useful to come up with a list of “good practice” guidelines for people research…
Research note
This research note argues that quantitative survey data on Africa, welcomed by most researchers in public health, economics, and political science, can make an important contribution to the work of historians and anthropologists, especially if it is open to critical analysis. The research note describes the 2012–13 ‘Knowing Each Other’ survey on religion among the Yoruba of south-west Nigeria, which provides strong evidence for a slow shift from …
Life course perspectives on (bi)sexuality
Scholars of sexuality have known for many years that sexual identity claims do not map neatly on to sexual histories. However, many studies continue to use currently claimed sexual identities as the basis for data collection and analysis, which can erase this complexity, particularly in relation to bisexuality. This article identifies four methodological techniques that help to operationalise theoretical sensitivity around the complex relationshi…
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and em…
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and empirical data to provide both conceptual knowled…
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Intersections of ageing, gender, sexualities
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to understand how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. Gender and sexuality are recognised as key factors in determining a person?s experience of later life but little research has been done into how age, gender and sexualities work together and with other divisions, including ethnicity and class, to form a range of inequalities and opportunities for people as they ag…
Later Life Sex and Rubin’s ‘Charmed Circle’
Gayle Rubin’s now classic concept of the ‘charmed circle’ has been much used by scholars of sexuality to discuss the ways in which some types of sex are privileged over others. In this paper, I apply the concept of the charmed circle to a new topic—later life—in order both to add to theory about later life sex and to add an older-age lens to thinking about sex hierarchies. Traditional discursive resources around older people’s sexual activities, …
Imagining feminist old age
Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe
This special issue focuses on care in late life and at the end of life for people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, from an international perspective. There is a growing body of research demonstrating that LGBT people are a diverse and under-researched new ageing population, but less attention has been paid to the specific issues connected to care in late life and at the end of life. This Special Issue makes a contribution t…
Revisioning ageing futures
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures
Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs
Two fast-track child and family social work training programs have been established in England — Step Up to Social Work and Frontline. Trainees’ financial support is far higher than for mainstream social work degrees. One of the reasons claimed for setting up these programs is addressing retention, although critics (of Frontline) predicted graduates would not stay in social work. A 4-year study assessed retention and reasons for leaving social wo…
Courage to cobble something new”
Critical gerontologists have called for more diverse and inclusive visions of a good old age, and especially for imaginings that do not depend on health, wealth and heterosexuality. They have suggested that LGBTQ people, alongside other marginalized groups, may have particular contributions to make to the project of reimagining ageing. In this paper, we bring together this work with Jose Muñoz's concept of 'cruising utopia' to examine possibiliti…
Exploring Changing Occupation Dynamics at the Lakeside Cave Site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste
Drawing the charmed circle in designing sexual and reproductive health and rights education
Designing and delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) curricula demands much of educators, who must juggle pedagogic, political, social and institutional priorities alongside managing the affect of learners, colleagues and themselves. Reflexivity is critical if SRHR education is to engage effectively with debated and contested topics and develop learning resources that are appropriate to diverse learners. In this paper, I argu…
A Systematic Review of Psychological Interventions for Sustaining Intimate Relationships in Older Age
Introduction This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate existing evidence on the effectiveness of psychological and therapeutic interventions for supporting intimacy, including emotional and physical affection, in adults aged 65 and older. Methods Following PRISMA guidelines, a systematic search was conducted across relevant electronic databases and cross-referencing for studies published up to September 2025. Screening and selection we…
Exploring the Determinants of Quality of Life for LGBTQ + People
Despite recent initiatives to understand and respond better to LGBTQ + lives in the UK, there remains a lack of detailed knowledge about the needs and experiences of the LGBTQ + population at an everyday level, including drivers of quality of life, and its association with mental health. This paper draws on findings from the UK dataset in the Global Pride survey collected in 2022. Data from 172 individuals aged 19–77 from diverse sexual and gende…
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