Staff Profile
Dr Emma Jackson
Lecturer
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My background is in International Education, and my first degree was in Social Policy (Open University). I then worked in areas of Post Conflict and I moved to research education in post conflict settings. During this time I gained my Masters in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education (UCL). I gained my PhD focused on Decolonising Education in South Africa at the University of York in 2023 whilst working as a Research Associate at the Centre of Applied Human Rights.
During this time I also trained as a psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis and gained my diploma in 2024.
Throughout my career I have had a strong interest in social justice and education and this is evident in my writing, teaching and research. More recently I have been developing Decolonised Methodologies in Educational Research with marginalised young people, and have particular interests in the inclusion of seldom heard voices in educational research. Much of my research is with historically marginalised communities.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – e.jackson@yorksj.ac.uk
Further information
Teaching
I teach on the undergraduate suite in Children Young People and Education. Specifically I teach Effective Communication and Teamwork and Mental Health and Wellbeing module.
I also teach on the Foundation Year modules on Introduction to University Study and The Influence of Policy and Politics.
Research
My PhD ('Exploring the role of indigenous knowledge in higher education in South Africa.') was completed in 2023 and I am now researching a variety of education issues that promote social justice in local, national and global settings. My current research includes working with children and young people to further understand the experience of seldom heard groups in education.
Having used participatory research and decolonised methodologies in my doctoral research, I have a strong interest in participatory research, innovative research methodologies and feminist research.
Publications
Academic papers
Bell, B. T., Sundaram, V., Jessop, N., Jackson, E. L (submitted for publication). "Racially Minoritised Girls’ and Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of Public Sexual Harassment in the UK". Psychology of Women Quarterly
Gready, P., & Jackson, E. (2025). Universities unbound: Universities as sites of human rights activism and protection in an era of democratic crisis. Journal of Human Rights, 24(1), 57-73.
Torgerson, C., Asbury, K., Fields, D., Fox, L., Harden, M., Jackson, E., & Sundaram, V. (2024). A Systematic Scoping Review on Recruiting and Retaining Seldom Heard Families in Longitudinal Qualitative Research.
Sundaram, V., & Jackson, E. L. (submitted for publication). “It's nice to be able to have the freedom to talk about how you feel when for so many years you've been squashed. But that's freedom as a woman to help other women”: Including families with experience of domestic violence in a longitudinal qualitative cohort study. Retrieved from osf.io/g6n72. Violence Against Women.
Chapters
Buckler, A., Pherali, T., Jackson, E.L (Submitted for publication). The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). In Project on the history of WCCES and its constituent societies.
Working papers and reports
March 2023: Working Paper: Gready, P. & Jackson, E. (2023) Universities as Sites of Activism and Protection. Human Rights Defender Hub Working Paper Series 14. York: Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York. Available at: hrdhub.org/working-papers.
Sundaram, V., Bell, B. T., Jessop, N., & Jackson, E. L. (2022). Everything is racialised on top: Black and minoritised girls’ and young women’s experiences of public sexual harassment in the UK.
Conferences
September 2023: UKFIET Conference: An exploration of indigenous knowledge and higher education in South Africa
September 2022: BAICE Conference: Indigenous education in South Africa
September 2021: UKFIET Conference: Decolonising methodologies
June 2021: Castle Conference, University of Durham: Decolonising methodologies
September 2019: Co-convened the BAICE conference, the University of York
