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Phil Jones
Phil Jones is Professor of Children’s Rights and Wellbeing at UCL’s Institute of Education and was Director of Research, School of Education, at the University of Leeds. He was recently awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and was a Mellon Distinguished Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Publications include ‘Drama As Therapy’ (Routledge), ‘The Arts Therapies’ (Routledge), ‘Rethinking Childhood: Attitudes in Contemporary Society’ (Continuum); ‘Rethinking Children’s Rights’ (with Welch, Bloomsbury); ‘Exploring Education and Childhood’ (with Wyse, Davis and Rogers, Routledge) and he is editor of Bloomsbury’s ‘New Childhoods’ Series. Research articles have been published in many journals including the ‘European Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy’, ‘Research in Drama Education’, ‘Counselling and Psychotherapy Research’, ‘The Arts in Psychotherapy’ and ‘Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy’. He has given keynotes in many countries including South Africa, South Korea, the U.S.A., Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and the prestigious Triennial World Congress for Psychotherapy, Sydney, Australia.