Main Research Areas:
Sexuality in later life, ageing and bisexuality, reimagining ageing, LGBT ageing
Biography:
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in Health at The Open University, UK. Her research interests are in ageing, sexuality and, especially, sexuality in later life. She has published widely on bisexuality and ageing. Her latest book, co-edited with Dr Andrew King and Prof Kathryn Almack, is Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities (Policy Press, 2020). She chaired The Open University’s Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS) for 10 years, leading its seminar and publication series with the Centre for Policy on Ageing. She is a Founder Member of BiUK, the UK organisation for bisexual research and activism www.biuk.org and one of the authors of The Bisexuality Report.
Selected Works:
Rebecca L. Jones (2019) ‘Life course perspectives on (bi)sexuality: Methodological tools to deprivilege current identities’ Sexualities, 22(7-8) pp. 1071-1093 https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460718792506
Sarah Jen and Rebecca L. Jones (2019). Bisexual Lives and Aging in Context: A Cross-National Comparison of the United Kingdom and the United States. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 89(1) pp. 22–38.
Rebecca L. Jones, Kathryn Almack and Rachael Scicluna (2018) ‘Older Bisexual People: Implications For Social Work From The ‘Looking Both Ways’ Study’ Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 61(3) pp. 334–347.
