Professor Jane Gingrich

Associate fellow

Jane Gingrich is a professor of social policy at the University of Oxford.

She completed her PhD in political science at UC Berkeley, and joined the University of Oxford in 2013. Her early work focuses on education and welfare reform, particularly the marketization of public services. More recently, she has been working on the intersection of public attitudes, voting behaviour and policy design.

She is also working on a project on the post-war evolution of education politics in 20 countries funded by the European Research Council. She is a co-director of a research group at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) on innovation and equity. She is also completing a book project on the Third Way turn in social democratic parties.

More from this author:

  1. Adults standing in a circle and talking to each other about their mental wellbeing. There is a staff member sitting to the left of them in the frame sitting next to a table. The community centre is located in Seaton Deleval in the North East of England.

    What is the left for?: The case for a politics of reciprocism

    Liberal democratic capitalism has failed to give many people good lives, and the future looks less promising than the past. 
  2. A photo of police officer and a community support officer walking down a quiet street in Kent

    The legitimacy trap

    Why a more active state needs better statecraft.
  3. London, a busy street outside the houses of parliament, with blurred people walking in front of the grand building

    Facing the future: Progressives in a changing world

    Progressive parties need a new set of defining and guiding ideas to challenge the populist radical right.