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Jones, Allan (2016). Science, the BBC and the two cultures. In: Medhurst, Jamie; Nicholas, Sian and O’Malley, Tom eds. Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s: historical perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 101–120.

Deshpande, Advait and Jones, Allan (2023). Less Revolution, More Evolution: Competitive Markets, Copper-based Broadband Tech, and Lessons for the Future. IEEE Communications Magazine, 61(7) pp. 32–37.

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Jones, Allan (2021). The Rises and Falls of Adult Education on the BBC L’Éducation des adultes à la BBC : entre avancée et recul. Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, XXVI(1), article no. 11.

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Gardner, Christine; Jones, Allan and Jefferis, Helen (2020). Analytics for Tracking Student Engagement. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), article no. 22.

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Seaton, Richard; Jones, Allan; Pim, Dennis and Sharp, David (2020). Findings from a survey of pitch drift. Choral Directions Research Journal, 1(1) pp. 58–70.

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Jones, Allan (2020). Science in the Making: 1930s Citizen Science on the BBC. History of Education, 49(3) pp. 327–343.

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Jones, Allan (2019). The Orchestrated Guitar. Soundboard, 45(2) pp. 32–37.

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Jones, Allan (2017). Exceptionalism and the broadcasting of science. Journal of Science Communication, 16(03), article no. A05.

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Jones, Allan (2016). [Book review] Digital technology and the contemporary university: degrees of digitization. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning, 31(3) pp. 288–290.

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Jones, Allan (2016). J.G. Crowther’s War: Institutional strife at the BBC and British Council. British Journal for the History of Science, 49(2) pp. 259–278.

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Jones, Allan (2016). [Book review] Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 by Stephen Lovell. Reviews in History, article no. 1907.

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Jones, Allan (2016). Brains, Tortoises, and Octopuses: Postwar Interpretations of Mechanical Intelligence on the BBC. Information and Culture: A Journal of History, 51(1) pp. 81–101.

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Kear, Karen; Jones, Allan; Holden, Georgina and Curcher, Mark (2016). Social technologies for online learning: theoretical and contextual issues. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 31(1) pp. 42–53.

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Jones, Allan (2015). [Book review] Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970, by Simon J. Potter. Technology and Culture, 56(3) pp. 770–772.

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Jones, Allan (2014). Elite science and the BBC: a 1950s contest of ownership. British Journal for the History of Science, 47(4) pp. 701–723.

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Deshpande, Advait and Jones, Allan (2014). From denationalisation to wholesale broadband access: a retrospective of regulatory policies in the UK for the communications industry. Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 15(3) pp. 232–257.

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Jones, Allan (2013). Clogging the machinery: the BBC's experiment in science coordination, 1949–1953. Media History, 19(4) pp. 436–449.

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Jones, Allan (2012). Mary Adams and the producer’s role in early BBC science broadcasts. Public Understanding of Science, 21(8) pp. 968–983.

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Barker, Elton; Bissell, Christopher; Hardwick, Lorna; Jones, Allan; Ridge, Mia and Wolffe, John (2012). Digital technologies: help or hindrance for the humanities? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 11(1-2) pp. 185–200.

Jones, Allan and Bissell, Christopher (2011). The social construction of educational technology through the use of authentic software tools. Research in Learning Technology, 19(3) pp. 285–297.

Jones, Allan (2004). Five 1951 BBC Broadcasts on Automatic Calculating Machines. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 26(2) pp. 3–15.

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Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Donelan, Helen; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jonathan; Wermelinger, Michel; Connolly, Teresa; Sanders, Chris; Peasgood, Alice; Williams, Judith; Moss, Nicky and Third, Allan (2019). An Open Networking Lab for practical open education. In: OER19: Recentering Open, 10-11 Apr 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway.

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Seaton, Richard; Sharp, David; Jones, Allan and Pim, Dennis (2019). Apparent asymmetry in discriminating between two closely spaced pitches. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 41(1) pp. 302–309.

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Gardner, Christine; Jefferis, Helen and Jones, Allan (2019). Analytics for tracking student engagement. In: Blended and online education within European university networks. The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2019 - Proceedings. (Ubachs, George and Joosten-Adriaanse, Fenna eds.) pp. 15–24.

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Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jonathan; Donelan, Helen; Wermelinger, Michel; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan and Connolly, Teresa (2018). The Open Networking Lab: Hands-on Vocational Learning in Computer Networking. In: IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 3-6 Oct 2018, San Jose, California, USA.

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Rosewell, Jonathan; Kear, Karen; Jones, Allan; Smith, Andrew; Donelan, Helen; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Peasgood, Alice; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan; Wermelinger, Michel; Moss, Nicky; Williams, Judith and Connolly, Teresa (2018). Open Networking Lab: online practical learning of computer networking. In: The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference: Blended and online Learning: Changing the Educational Landscape, 10-12 Oct 2018, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Mikroyannidis, Alex; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jon; Donelan, Helen; Wermelinger, Michel; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan and Connolly, Teresa (2018). The Open Networking Lab: an open online course for experiential learning of computer networking. In: Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference 2018, 11-13 Sep 2018, Manchester.

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Seaton, Richard; Sharp, D.; Jones, A. and Pim, D. N. (2016). Experiments with Choirs – Practice and Pitfalls. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, St. Albans, pp. 362–373.

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Jones, Allan (2014). ‘Science In The Making’: a 1931/32 BBC experiment in citizen science. In: Sixth International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, 4-6 Sep 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Jones, Allan (2014). Henri Sauguet's unpublished guitar music. In: Launch of the International Guitar Research Centre, 29-30 Mar 2014, University of Surrey.

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Jones, Allan (2013). The Changing World: The BBC’s educational response to the economic crisis of 1931. In: History of the Media in Transition Periods, 4-6 Sep 2013, Catholic University of Portugal/Lisbon, ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association.

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Jones, Allan; Bissell, Christopher and Chapman, David (2012). Open resources for case studies and assignments. In: EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) 25th Annual Conference 2012 ‘The role of open and flexible education in European higher education systems for 2020: new models, new markets, new media’, 27-28 Sep 2012, Paphos, Cyprus.

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Jones, Allan (2012). Joe Trenaman’s investigation of BBC listeners’ understanding of science. In: Seventh British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS, 11-14 Jul 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Kear, Karen and Jones, Allan (2011). Social networking for online learning. In: Alta 2011 (Advanced learning Technologies and Applications, 2011), 27 Oct 2011, Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Jones, Allan (2010). Science, the 1930s and the BBC: competition and collaboration. In: Broadcasting in the 1930s: New Media in a Time of Crisis (part of “On, Archives!” conference), 6-9 Jul 2010, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

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Jones, Allan (2008). BBC science: a question of control. In: Second Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), 25-28 Nov 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

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Jones, Allan (2007). Proprietary software tools as learning aids. In: AACE Ed-Media 2007, 25-29 Jun 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

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Jones, Allan (2004). Cyril Scott, Segovia and the Sonatina for Guitar. In: Symposium of the International Musicological Society (SIMS 2004), 11-16 Jul 2004, Melbourne, Australia.

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Jones, Allan (2002). Pioneers on the air: BBC radio broadcasts on computers and A.I., 1946-56. In: 6th International Colloquium of ACONIT (Association pour un Conservatoire de l'Informatique et de la Telematique, 25-27 Nov 2002, Grenoble, France.

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