EdD Student

Luke is a part-time EdD student and a full-time Appropriate Body Lead for the Star Teaching School Hub (Birmingham South). Luke is a qualified secondary modern languages teacher with nearly fifteen years of experience in diverse educational roles. He has taught and led in different schools and organisations within the sector across the West Midlands. His career focus has been on teacher recruitment, early career teacher development and teacher support.

Luke’s doctoral research focuses on the current induction processes for early career teachers (ECTs) in England. Using qualitative data collection and analysis, Luke is investigating how support is personalised to ECTs throughout their induction period to share and improve best practice in this area, with the view to improving existing policy.

In addition to his work and study, Luke is also Chair of Governors for a primary school in Warwickshire and the External Moderator for a SCITT provider in the North West region.

Email: luke.jackson@warwick.ac.uk

Education

MA in Spanish (First, with Distinction in Spoken Spanish) – University of St Andrews

PGCE Secondary in Modern Languages – University of Warwick

MA in Educational Leadership (Distinction) – University of Warwick

Languages

English, Spanish and French

Research Areas

Teacher recruitment, teacher retention, teacher induction, teacher support, initial teacher training and education (ITT/ITE), early career teachers (ECTs), educational policy

Research Projects

Member of the Expert Working Group for the Teaching improvement through data and evaluation (TIDE) project (2024-2028), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, led by the National Institute of Teaching (NIoT). Further information on the project is available here: https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/teaching-improvement-through-data-and-evaluation-tide

Publications

Jones, C., Banerjee, P. and Jackson, L. (2025), The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape, British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4175Link opens in a new window

Jackson, L. and Smith, R. (2025), Collaborative by design: The role and value of local school partnerships for supporting effective school-centred initial teacher training practice, https://my.chartered.college/impact_article/collaborative-by-design-the-role-and-value-of-local-school-partnerships-for-supporting-effective-school-centred-initial-teacher-training-practice/