Barbara Alison Jones MNZM is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.

[6] In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland.

[10] In the 2019 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and sociology research.

[11] Her books include 'At school I've Got a Chance': Pacific Islands and Pākehā girls at school (1991), He Kōrero: Words Between Us: First Māori Pākehā conversations on paper (2011), and Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds (2017) co-authored with Kuni Kaa Jenkins which won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.

[12] Her 2020 memoir, This Pākehā Life, was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award (General Nonfiction).