She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she was a foundation scholar and a Government of Ireland Research Scholar in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and St John’s College, Cambridge. Dr Jones has held a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. Her monograph Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, with a paperback edition published in 2013. She has co-edited two books and published over 27 scholarly articles and chapters on the First World War. She is currently researching the British monarchy at war 1914-1918 for a forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press.