Liz Jackson

Liz Jackson is an American scholar of the philosophy of education and educational theory. She is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of International Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at the Education University of Hong Kong. Previously she was associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, where she also served as the Director of the Master of Education Program and the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). She is also a Fellow and Past President (2018-2020) of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). Biography Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Portland State University in Oregon in 2003, a Master of Philosophy degree in Politics, Democracy, and Education from the University of Cambridge (Newnham College) in 2005, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. She was the first in her family to graduate from college. After completing her PhD, Jackson joined the United States Peace Corps as a volunteer from 2009 to 2011. During that time she worked in South Africa as an Education Policy Specialist focusing on educational capacity building based in rural areas of the North-West and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces. In 2011, she worked as Policy Coordinator for the Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates, based in Abu Dhabi, overseeing higher educational policy across the 17-campus college system and leading the System Survey Review and Institutional Effectiveness committees. In 2012, she joined the University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor, and continued there as a tenured associate professor from 2017 to 2020. While at the University of Hong Kong, she served as the Deputy Director and the Director of the Master of Education Programme and was part of the University Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity, the Working Group on Equity and Inclusion on Campus and the Common Core Curriculum General Education Committee. In 2018 she was elected as the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre, after serving as an elected member of the Management Committee from 2014 to 2018. She was the first woman to take the helm of the Centre in its 18-year history. While at the University of Hong Kong, Jackson also served as a visiting scholar at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, Syracuse University, and the University of Glasgow.