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Dr Sion Jones
- Welsh speaking
Teams and roles for Sion Jones
Senior Lecturer
Overview
I am partly responsible for developing Welsh medium educational provision in the School of Social Sciences. It’s possible for you to have a personal tutor who speaks Welsh. The School offers Welsh medium provision in a number of different modules on subjects such as Social Research, Social Theory and Sociology. For more information, you’re welcome to contact me. I also teach on modules through the medium of English on subjects such as Education. In addition, I supervise dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervise PhD and Professional Doctorate students. I also conduct research in a number of different areas including education and the Welsh language.
I have also developed a number of social science resources in Welsh:
Sociological Theory: Bourdieu, Marx and Patricia Hill Collins – https://www.porth.ac.uk/en/collection/gwyddorau-cymdeithas-theori-gymdeithasegol
Studying Contemporary Wales: Social Class, National Identity and Gender -https://www.porth.ac.uk/en/collection/cymdeithaseg-astudio-cymru-gyfoes
Qualitative Research Skills - https://www.porth.ac.uk/en/collection/sgiliau-ymchwil-ansoddol
Sociology and Welsh Baccalaureate Research Skills Session - https://www.porth.ac.uk/en/collection/sesiwn-adolygu-sgiliau-ymchwil-cymdeithaseg-a-bagloriaeth
Publication
2025
- Lyttleton-Smith, J. et al. 2025. Better than therapy: Exploring hedonic joy and its relationship to well-being for unpaid carers in Wales. The British Journal of Social Work 55 (6), pp.2696-2715. (10.1093/bjsw/bcaf067)
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2025. Mental wellbeing needs and support for care-experienced children and young people in secondary school and during the transition to further education college. Children & Society 39 (4), pp.719-865. (10.1111/chso.12951)
2024
- Burrows, D. et al. 2024. Trapped: Experiences of unpaid carers of clinically vulnerable people “shielding” during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Journal of Social Work 24 (1), pp.73-92. (10.1177/14680173231197628)
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2024. Understanding school-based counselling services in complex systems: developing a whole system approach. Health Education 83 (6), pp.609-623. (10.1177/00178969241263189)
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2024. Challenges and opportunities for social work practice in mental health and wellbeing support for care-experienced children and young people in schools and colleges in Wales. Presented at: 13th European Conference for Social Work Vilnius, Lithuania 17-19 April 2024.
2023
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2023. Mental health and wellbeing support in schools and further education colleges for care-experienced children and young people. Presented at: EuSARF - 'Equity and Social Justice in Child, Youth and Family Welfare' University of Sussex 12-15 September 2023.
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2023. Wellbeing and mental health support in schools and colleges for care experienced children and young people: a mixed-methods study of delivering and receiving support. Presented at: BERA Conference 2023 Aston University, Birmingham 12-14 September 2023.
2022
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2022. Review of statutory school and community-based counselling services: Optimisation of services for children and young people aged 11 to 18 years and extension to younger primary school aged children. Project Report.[Online].Welsh Government. Available at: https://gov.wales/review-school-and-community-based-counselling-services.
- Jones, S. L. 2022. Perspectives and attitudes towards Welsh-medium study at post-compulsory level among 15-16-year-old students in the South Wales Valleys. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25 (1), pp.261-271. (10.1080/13670050.2019.1668349)
2021
- Burrows, D. et al. 2021. Lleisiau gofalwyr yn ystod pandemig COVID-19: negeseuon ar gyfer dyfodol gofalu di-dâl yng Nghymru.
- Burrows, D. et al. 2021. Voices of carers during the COVID-19 pandemic: messages for the future of unpaid caring in Wales.
- Rosier, E. and Jones, S. 2021. Creating blended learning materials in the Welsh language to support students with digital education: examples from the Business School and the School of Social Sciences. Presented at: Cardiff University Learning and Teaching Conference 2021 Virtual 1-2 July 2021.
2020
- Alston, J. et al., 2020. Understanding the impact of universal credit on the council tax reduction scheme and rent arrears in Wales: final report. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2020-07/universal-credit-council-tax-reduction-scheme-and-rent-arrears-wales-final-report.pdf.
2017
- Jones, S. 2017. What do we know and not know about choice of medium of education in South-East Wales?. Wales Journal of Education 19 (2), pp.143-162. (10.16922/wje.19.2.8)
- Jones, S. L. 2017. The aspirations and expectations of young people attending a Welsh-medium and an English-medium school in the South Wales Valley. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Articles
- Burrows, D. et al. 2024. Trapped: Experiences of unpaid carers of clinically vulnerable people “shielding” during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Journal of Social Work 24 (1), pp.73-92. (10.1177/14680173231197628)
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2024. Understanding school-based counselling services in complex systems: developing a whole system approach. Health Education 83 (6), pp.609-623. (10.1177/00178969241263189)
- Jones, S. 2017. What do we know and not know about choice of medium of education in South-East Wales?. Wales Journal of Education 19 (2), pp.143-162. (10.16922/wje.19.2.8)
- Jones, S. L. 2022. Perspectives and attitudes towards Welsh-medium study at post-compulsory level among 15-16-year-old students in the South Wales Valleys. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25 (1), pp.261-271. (10.1080/13670050.2019.1668349)
- Lyttleton-Smith, J. et al. 2025. Better than therapy: Exploring hedonic joy and its relationship to well-being for unpaid carers in Wales. The British Journal of Social Work 55 (6), pp.2696-2715. (10.1093/bjsw/bcaf067)
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2025. Mental wellbeing needs and support for care-experienced children and young people in secondary school and during the transition to further education college. Children & Society 39 (4), pp.719-865. (10.1111/chso.12951)
Conferences
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2024. Challenges and opportunities for social work practice in mental health and wellbeing support for care-experienced children and young people in schools and colleges in Wales. Presented at: 13th European Conference for Social Work Vilnius, Lithuania 17-19 April 2024.
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2023. Mental health and wellbeing support in schools and further education colleges for care-experienced children and young people. Presented at: EuSARF - 'Equity and Social Justice in Child, Youth and Family Welfare' University of Sussex 12-15 September 2023.
- Macdonald, S. et al. 2023. Wellbeing and mental health support in schools and colleges for care experienced children and young people: a mixed-methods study of delivering and receiving support. Presented at: BERA Conference 2023 Aston University, Birmingham 12-14 September 2023.
- Rosier, E. and Jones, S. 2021. Creating blended learning materials in the Welsh language to support students with digital education: examples from the Business School and the School of Social Sciences. Presented at: Cardiff University Learning and Teaching Conference 2021 Virtual 1-2 July 2021.
Monographs
- Alston, J. et al., 2020. Understanding the impact of universal credit on the council tax reduction scheme and rent arrears in Wales: final report. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2020-07/universal-credit-council-tax-reduction-scheme-and-rent-arrears-wales-final-report.pdf.
- Burrows, D. et al. 2021. Lleisiau gofalwyr yn ystod pandemig COVID-19: negeseuon ar gyfer dyfodol gofalu di-dâl yng Nghymru.
- Burrows, D. et al. 2021. Voices of carers during the COVID-19 pandemic: messages for the future of unpaid caring in Wales.
- Hewitt, G. et al. 2022. Review of statutory school and community-based counselling services: Optimisation of services for children and young people aged 11 to 18 years and extension to younger primary school aged children. Project Report.[Online].Welsh Government. Available at: https://gov.wales/review-school-and-community-based-counselling-services.
Thesis
- Jones, S. L. 2017. The aspirations and expectations of young people attending a Welsh-medium and an English-medium school in the South Wales Valley. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
