Sonia Jackson (academic)

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Sonia Jackson, OBE (born 1934) is a British academic and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London. As of 2021, Jackson is semi-retired but still in active collaboration with colleagues at the Thomas Coram Research Unit and internationally. Her main areas of research are the education of children in care, foster care, social exclusion, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and international comparisons of children's services.

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Early life and education

Jackson is the elder daughter of Maurice Edelman and Matilda Edelman, née Yager. Jackson was evacuated to Buckinghamshire in 1940 and grew up in Chesham Bois. She was educated at Springfield Grange and Belle Vue Prep before attending Berkhamsted School for Girls (present day Berkhamsted School) as a day girl. Jackson went on to read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with 2.1 Hons in 1956, which she followed with a Postgraduate Certificate in Social Studies (with Distinction) at Somerville College, Oxford. She later took a second degree in Natural Sciences (Psychology) at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a social worker with a Diploma from the London School of Economics (CQSW).

Career and Research

Jackson's first job was research assistant to the anthropologist, Edmund Leach. Subsequent jobs include working as a psychologist and social worker, NHS Child Psychiatric Clinic, welfare officer, editor of Where and executive director of Advisory Centre for Education (ACE). [1] [2]

After spending four years as social worker for Cambridgeshire Social Services, Jackson started her first academic appointment as Economic and Social Research Council (formerly SSRC) research officer at the University of Huddersfield where she conducted the first major study of childminding. [3]

Jackson was subsequently appointed Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) at the University of Bristol (1976 – 1992), before becoming Professor of Applied Social Studies and Head of Social Policy at Swansea University (previously Swansea College, University of Wales) (1992 – 2001) and finally Professor of Social Care and Education at the Institute of Education (now part of University College London) (2001) and Professor Emerita (2003). [4]

Research at UCL centered on post-compulsory education of children in care in England, Scotland and four other European countries (Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Hungary) as well as Australia and New Zealand. [5] [6]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Jackson first married in 1956 to Philip Abrams d. 31 October 1981, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, later Professor of Sociology, University of Durham; they divorced in 1970. In 1978 she married Brian Jackson, sociologist, author and social entrepreneur. He died suddenly in Huddersfield on 3 July 1983. In 1990, she married Derek Greenwood, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Bristol. d. 15 November 2007. Jackson has two children from first marriage, two from her second, four stepchildren and 16 grandchildren.

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Notable Books

Selected Academic Papers

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References

  1. ↑ "Hachette: Sonia Jackson". Hachette. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Adoption and Children Bill". Parliament UK. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Sonia (1975). "Unsatisfactory childminding: The educational implications". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 4 (2): 211–215. doi:10.1080/1369183X.1975.9975359.
  4. ↑ "Professor Sonia Jackson OBE". Become. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Jackson, Sonia; Cameron, Claire (2009). "Yippee - retaining young people from care in post compulsory education: a five country study". Outcome Network (4). Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "YiPPEE Project: Young people from a public care background: pathways to further and higher education in five European countries". Better Care Network. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Abrams, Dominic; Christian, Julie; Gordon, David (2007). Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion Research. England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. p. x. ISBN   9780470095133.
  8. ↑ "The MacQuarie Street Lectures on Children and Young People: Reports and Government Responses". Parliament of New South Wales.
  9. ↑ "New Year Honours (2002) Order of the British Empire, Civil/Order of the British Empire, Officer (OBE) A - K". The Guardian. 31 December 2002.
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