About
Jane joined the department in 2017 as a Graduate Teaching Fellow whilst studying for a PhD (Understanding education practitioners' responses to implementing Prevent: trust, responsibility and negotiation) under the supervision of Professor Mythen and Professor Walklate. Prior to this she had taught Social Science subjects in a secondary school and sixth form colleges since 1991. During this time she was an institutional lead for a DfE national pilot of Post Sixteen Citizenship education, an assistant examiner for a national exam board and mentored trainee teachers. She has contributed to undergraduate teaching at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University on Criminology and Education degree programmes. She gained a Masters in Counter Terrorism (UCLan) in 2016. Jane has contributed to the work of the Central Ethics Committee at the University of Liverpool by reviewing ethics applications and reporting back to applicants. Jane completed her PhD in 2024 and commenced an ESRC funded Post Doctoral Fellowship which advances on from her doctoral research. Jane's research centres on the responsibilisation of educators for pre-emptive counter terrorism policy. She is interested in trust, vulnerability, safeguarding, pastoral education and practitioner agency in policy enactment. She uses qualitative methods to conduct research with practitioners 'on the ground'.