HOPE Research

Jack is a qualitative researcher specialising in decentralisation and place-based policy. Since September 2025, he has been Research Associate on The Place Project and the Post Implementation Review of the Health and Care Act 2022.

Jack’s research considers how place-based policymaking is affected by the structure of multi-level systems. In recent years, he has researched spatial inequality, local institutions, and healthy urban development at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Surrey, and Leeds. He has worked in partnership with government departments (MHCLG, DHSC) and leading think tanks (IfG, Demos) to impact the national policy debate on issues around English devolution, local accountability, and policy geographies.