About
Doctor Sadie Jones is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton. Member of Astronomy research group and Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity Centre (STAG).
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Research
Research interests
- individual Active Galactic Nucleui called NGC 4051, using data from the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, USA
- correlation between the Radio and X-ray regimes at the core of this source, where the black hole is
Current research
Writing:
Jones,S. (2017). Astronomy in the Airport: Supernova science in the departure lounge. Accepted to the peer reviewed Communicating Astronomy with Public Journal
Jones, S., McHardy, I., & Maccarone, T. (2016). A comprehensive long term study of the radio and X-ray Variability of NGC 4051 Paper II. Accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09228
Jones, S. et al. (2010). Radio and X-ray variability in Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051. Accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6633
Jones, S. John, P. (2021). Four years of the #SotonAstroArt project.
Accepted to the proceedings of Communicating Astronomy with Public.
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Teaching
Senior Teaching Fellow: Sadie has taught for 14 years on the two Tenerife field trip modules
From January 2024 she is the module lead on a new optional astronomy module previously called UOSM2046: Discovering Our Universe but now called 'UOSM2049: Astronomy for Everyone' which is open to continuing students across the whole University.
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Biography
Astronomy Public Engagement Leader: Sadie’s current role involves co-ordination and management of all the astronomy outreach and public engagement activities from the Physics and Astronomy department. A large part of this involves managing a team of undergraduate students, PhD students and Post Docs who work with the astrodome and deliver research focused planetarium shows aka #OurGreatestTeam.
Sadie and her team also run the ‘Learning about the Aurora’ repeat intervention program in local widening participation (WP) schools which includes the citizen science project, The Aurora Zoo and the Connect Physics workshops.
For WP primary schools her team deliver the award winning cross-discipline projects, Aurora Art and Black hole poetry workshops.
Sadie also manages the Space Zone at the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) every year and acts as a media correspondent on all things space related.
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