Ross Jones taught in schools in Australia for over two decades before completing his PhD on the Australian eugenics' movement. Since then he has variously taught the histories of medicine, public health and biology at the University of Melbourne; has been an Australian Research Council Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney as well as the Redmond Barry Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. He is an active contributor in newspapers, radio, TV and online and has published widely in the areas of the history of anatomy, eugenics, medical biography and education. He is currently an honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne.
