Louise A. Jackson

Louise Jackson is Professor of Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is concerned with histories of women and gender in modern Britain, as well as with:

• Histories of policing and surveillance
• Crime
• Deviancy
• Childhood
• Youth
• Sexuality.

She is Principal Investigator of Gender Equalities at Work: an Interdisciplinary History of 50 Years of Legislation. This project is the first comprehensive longitudinal study (from the 1960s to the present) of the creation, trajectories, legacies and lived experiences of the Equal Pay Act 1970 and Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (now integrated in the Equality Act 2010) across the four nations of the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, it is a collaboration between researchers from UWE Bristol, UCL and the University of Edinburgh. Louise’s noteworthy research outputs include:

• Jackson, L., Davidson, N., Fleming, L., Smale, D. and Sparks, R. (2020) Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
• D'Cruze, S. and Jackson, L. (2009) Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Jackson, L. (2006) Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century. Manchester University Press
• Jackson, L. (2000) Child sexual abuse in Victorian England. London: Routledge.