My name is Jamie Stewart Jones, also known as Stewart Lloyd-Jones (it's a long story). People call me Stewart or Stu.
I am from the Isle of Bute, a beautiful small island cradled by the Cowal peninsula and bathed in the waters of the Firth of Clyde. I moved to Glasgow with my job when I was 17. I got a degree from Glasgow University then gave up my job with British Telecom to devote myself to the study of Portuguese political history. I then spent two years in Lisbon, studying and tending bar, before moving back to Dundee.
I started working as a translator while I was in Lisbon and then I was offered a job at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute as the editorial consultant to the university's new academic journal, the Portuguese Journal of Social Science (PJSS). That was back in 1999, and I am still there now - we are publishing volumes 19 and 20 this year.
In September 1998 - a day after Google launched - I established the Contemporary Portuguese History Research Centre (CPHRC), which organised two international conferences (the first in Scotland in 2000, the second in Paris in 2002), published a book (The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonization) and held an international seminar at Stirling University in 2014 before the centre closed down in 2017.
I wanted to take some photographs of a conference at the University of Lisbon's Institute of Social Science in 2002, so I purchased a small and relatively inexpensive digital camera (Fuji A202), and then I was hooked. Soon any time not spent working on a translation or on the PJSS was spent trekking through fields and over fences with my cameras.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
I take a photograph every day to document my life in pictures. The images I choose will never win any prizes, but that is not the goal.
Some time ago I started a blog as a place to tell stories and a place for reflection. I update it fairly infrequently, but it is here if you are interested.
My CV
Education
University of Stirling (2013-2016) - Visiting fellow
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon (1996-2004) - Archival research - Salazar's corporatism and the regime of Sidónio País
University of Glasgow (1988-1992) - Master of Arts (Honours) in politics and economic history
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon (1996-2004) - Archival research - Salazar's corporatism and the regime of Sidónio País
University of Glasgow (1988-1992) - Master of Arts (Honours) in politics and economic history
Employment
MediaBrief (2021-date) - writing daily news briefings and analyses on political and economic events in Portugal and Spain
CPHRC Editorial Services (2000-date) - translation, editing, proofreading, DTP, photography, indexing, subediting
DC Thomson (2007-18; 2021-date) - subeditor on The Courier and currently part-time for DCT Media's newspapers division
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon (1999-date) - Portuguese Journal of Social Science editorial consultant
CPHRC (1998-2017) - director of Portuguese political history research centre
University of Dundee (1998-2000) - politics tutor
University of Glasgow (1992-4, 1997-8) - politics tutor and professor of honours course Transitions to Democracy in Southern Europe
British Telecom (1978-92) - external planning engineer
CPHRC Editorial Services (2000-date) - translation, editing, proofreading, DTP, photography, indexing, subediting
DC Thomson (2007-18; 2021-date) - subeditor on The Courier and currently part-time for DCT Media's newspapers division
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon (1999-date) - Portuguese Journal of Social Science editorial consultant
CPHRC (1998-2017) - director of Portuguese political history research centre
University of Dundee (1998-2000) - politics tutor
University of Glasgow (1992-4, 1997-8) - politics tutor and professor of honours course Transitions to Democracy in Southern Europe
British Telecom (1978-92) - external planning engineer
Software and apps
Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy, DreamWeaver, PremierPro, Acrobat)
Skylum (Luminar 4, Luminar AI, Luminar Neo)
Microsoft Office 365
MemoQ (computer-aided translation program)
WordPress
Atex/Prestige
Skylum (Luminar 4, Luminar AI, Luminar Neo)
Microsoft Office 365
MemoQ (computer-aided translation program)
WordPress
Atex/Prestige
Languages
English
Portuguese
Spanish
Portuguese
Spanish
Some of my publications
'An end or a beginning for Portugal? Some notes on the legacy of 25 April 1974', Lusotopie 9: 2 (2002), pp. 141-7.
'The slow death of the First Republic', in M. Baiôa (ed.), Elites e Poder: A Crise do Sistema Liberal em Portugal e Espanha (1918-1931), Évora: CIDEHUS (2004), pp. 247-68.
'Uma semana depois do "Brexit", receio pelo futuro do meu país', Público, 1 July 2016.
'Guardians of the republic?: Portugal’s Guarda Nacional Republicana and the politicians during the "new old republic", 1919–22', in G. Blaney (ed.), Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918–40, London: Springer (2007), pp. 90-111 (with D. Palacios Cerezales).
'Portugal’s history since 1974', CPHRC Working Papers, Series 2, Number 1 (November 2001).
'Integralismo Lusitano: "Made in France"?', Penelopé 28 (2003), pp. 93-104.
'Integralismo Lusitano and Action Française', Portuguese Journal of Social Science 2:1 (2003), pp. 39-59.
'The 1999 parliamentary elections and 2001 presidential elections in Portugal', Electoral Studies 21 (2002), pp. 114-22.
Portuguese Journal of Social Science
In the late 1990s, a group of university professors at ISCTE in Lisbon got together to launch Portugal's first English-language peer-reviewed academic journal covering all the social science areas taught in the university at that time.
The aim then, as now, is to provide a medium for the publication of original papers covering Portuguese thought and research on social sciences, although the journal is open to receive article proposals from authors of other nationalities.
The Portuguese Journal of Social Science opens a gateway for the international community to engage with a high calibre of academic work in social sciences produced by Portuguese scholarship. Previous to the publication of this peer-reviewed journal, this work remained largely inaccessible to an international readership due to issues with language and translation
CPHRC Editorial Services
CPHRC Editorial Services was initially established as a way to fund the Contemporary Portuguese History Research Centre. To do so, we offered the skills we developed while carrying out archival research to translate and proofread academic papers, typset and layout books and magazines, prepare camera-ready PDFs, create graphics and tables and indexes.
Get in touch if you need anything translated from Portuguese or Spanish into English.
