Jack is a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University. Prior to joining Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2023, Jack conducted his doctoral research at the University of Liverpool Management School. 

Jack’s current research explores social sustainability through the emergence of care relations in online communities. He tends to be interdisciplinary, enrolling in particular political theories including feminist ethics of care and anarchist perspectives on social organisation to explore the ‘cultural politics of markets, consumption and culture’ across different forms of organising. 

• Cultural politics in organisations and communities
• Care Ethics
• Social sustainability
• Sustainability politics
• Neoliberalism in Higher Education
• Participatory Research
• Cultural political economy
• CMS and Critical Theory

Jack’s current research projects include exploring the political context of sustainability through discourse analysis, and analysing the prefigurative potential of communities that form around specific cultural interests to excavate how an underpinning culture of mutual aid, relations of care and affective solidarities emerge and to afford social and emotional wellbeing through informal and less hierarchical modes of organising.

Since 2021 Jack has been working with colleagues (both UK based and abroad) to organise the Ekstasis collective – a project aimed at providing spaces for critical and experimental discussion concerning teaching and research for PhD students and early-career researchers. The collective most recently hosted a workshop at the 2023 13^th International Critical Management Studies conference, held at Nottingham Trent University.

Jack is on the organising committee for the 14th International Critical Management Studies conference, to be held at MMU in June 2025, and a member of the Socio-ecological Leadership, Organisation and Work (SLOW) group, who ran a symposium at MMU in July 2024.