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Lace Jackson

Research student

Lace Jackson is affiliated with The Open University's Department of Public Leadership and Social Enterprise. You can email Lace Jackson directly; but for media enquiries please contact a member of The Open University's Media Relations team.

Biography

A registered Social Worker, Lace has worked in the social care sector over the past 27-years with several organisations, including four London boroughs and four shire counties in various roles.  With a proven track record for successfully developing people and organisations, Lace has contributed to improvements in the professional development of social work/social care/psychotherapeutic practitioners, students, and managers. 

Lace currently holds the post of Institute Director at the Institute of Integrated Systemic Therapy (IiST) and is responsible for the leadership of the Institute’s college setting standards in the training and qualification of employees. This incorporates the role of clinical practice lead, supporting better outcomes for severely traumatised children and young people.

A member of the DfE Expert Advisory Group and Content Advisory Group for the National Accreditation and Assessment System (NAAS), Lace also sits on the NAAS Standards Setting Committee.

Current research

The personal and professional challenges encountered by Global Majority individuals exercising leadership in the UK

Lace’s research aims to surface some of the challenges experienced by people of different ethnicities concerning occluded narratives and invisible practices of leadership in a UK public sector context.

Publications

Undoing leadership in the shadow of a colonial legacy?

Paper submitted to the International Studying Leadership Conference, Lancaster University, 16-18 December 2018

Lace Jackson, Owain Smolović Jones and Siv Vangen

The Open University Business School

Hidden Victims’ Statutory and Voluntary Services’ Response to Children Experiencing Domestic Violence, 2002.

Dissertation submitted as a course requirement of the MA in Advanced Interprofessional Social Practice. The University of Luton.

A published contributor to the National breakthrough programme for aspiring women leaders.

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