Alison Jones

Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.
Education and career.
Jones studied at Auckland for her Doctor of Education, 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. She was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017.
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. 
Publications.
Her books include "'At school I've Got a Chance': Pacific Islands and Pākehā girls at school" (1991), "He Kōrero: Words Between Us: First Māori Pākehā conversations on paper" (2011), and "Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds" (2017) which won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction. Her 2020 memoir, "This Pākehā Life," was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham award for general nonfiction.