Karen Jones

• Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Funded project: ‘Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education’. Involved research to support UoR goals and targets for equality in leadership, specifically the gender and BAME balance in professorial, senior grade roles and university committees
• Women Academic’s maternity leave experiences in academia
• Post-doctoral career precarity arising from career breaks

Funding:

• Principal Investigator: Developing a co-designed research agenda to inform policy on Violence Reduction Research England. Policy Support Grant (£6,971). 2021-22.
• Principal Investigator: Evaluation of the Mentors in Violence Prevention programme to tackle gender-based violence in secondary schools. Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (£5,000). 2022. 
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), University of Reading. Higher Education Leadership gaps - understanding the underrepresentation of women and BAME groups in professorial and senior leadership roles (£1,320). 2020.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), University of Reading. Using Graphic Research Methods in Diversity and Inclusion research (£1,320). 2020.
• Applicant and Principal Investigator: ‘Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education’, funded by Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund, University of Reading (£987.10). 2019-20.
• EERA funded international seminar - Academic Careers: PhD graduates and Employability in- and outside Academia (£275). 2019
• Co-Investigator: Two Projects - Gender Equality and Gender Intelligence. Eton College (£27,000). 2017-18.
• Co-applicant: Community outreach project, funded by Widening Participation, University of Reading (£4,000). 2017.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), University of Reading. Taking a maternity break from academia: the perceptions, implications and experiences of women returning to academia (£1,320). 2017.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP), University of Reading. Academic Career Breaks: post-doctorate hell – rhetoric or reality (£1,320). 2017.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Tackling stereotypes, sexism and unconscious biases in teaching and learning. Teaching and Learning Development Fund (TLDF), with Institute of Education, Department of Economics, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (£500) 2016-18.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: NHS ‘Organisational Leadership Development (OD) Training’, Post Graduate Certificate and Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership. (£150,000) Funded by NHS Leadership Academy South West. 2013-15.
• Community and Primary Care Workforce Development Tender. Co-ordinated Lot 7- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Lot 10 Leadership. (circa £500,000) Funded by Health Education South West. 2015.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: ‘Learning to Lead in the Public Sector’ (£2,500) Funded by Plymouth University Seed Corn Fund. 2014.
• LEAD Wales Expansion - ‘Leadership Wales’ (£600,000): Made a significant contribution to bid awarded to Swansea University (partner to Bangor University in ‘LEAD Wales’) funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO). 2013.
• Principal Applicant and Principal Investigator: Developing Strategic links between Higher Education and the Third Sector in Wales, Strategic Insight Programme (£7,000). Funding awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). 2013.
• Co-Applicant and Co-Investigator: Determining the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People Living with a Parent or Guardian with a Chronic Condition (£10,000). Funding awarded by the Office of the Chief Social Research Officer, Welsh Government. 2009.