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William Jones is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, affiliated with the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy and the Centre for Global Politics and Development. His work focuses on Central Africa, diaspora mobilization against authoritarian regimes, and state-building processes.
- Politics, DPhil, University of Oxford (2014)
- Comparative Government, MPhil, University of Oxford (2009)
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, BA (Hons), University of Oxford (2007)
His research examines refugees as political agents, contesting authoritarian regimes through transnational networks. Key projects include analyzing Rwanda’s post-genocide political order, Africa’s 'new authoritarians', and diaspora lifecycle dynamics. He advocates for deconstructing methodological statism in African transnational politics.
Recent publications address technology in asylum systems, digital welfare governance, and theoretical frameworks for understanding Rwanda’s political settlements. His 2022 work on Sweden’s asylum system and 2020 conference contribution on digital welfare highlight interdisciplinary applications of technology and policy.
- Junior Research Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford
- Leverhulme Trust grant for 'The Nation Outside the State' project
He co-founded Refugees' Say (2016), an organization reforming refugee resettlement, and supervises research on political contention, refugee agency, and African state trajectories. Collaborations include work with Alexander Betts on diaspora mobilization in Zimbabwe and Rwanda.
