Carolyn Jackson is Director of The England Centre for Practice Development which launched on 5 October 2011. The Centre is a partnership of international networks led by and based at Canterbury Christ Church University, and supported by members of the International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC).

The Centre activity includes commissioned research, consultancy practice and development of workplace cultures and programmes of education that are geared to transform health care services and the experiences of front line staff and service user experiences of care.

She currently holds an honorary Clinical Academic Fellowship in clinical practice and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales.