Jack Jacobs

Jack Jacobs is the Yindyamarra Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University. He works closely with Stan Grant to inspire and provoke critical discussion around issues of democracy, justice, equity, tolerance, and belonging.

Jack is the co-host of the Yindyamarra podcast with Stan Grant and the host of Beaconsfield podcast, on which he speaks with leading thinkers about reform. He has appeared as a guest on ABC Radio National programs and contributes to The Conversation and other mediums.

Previously, Jack worked on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark review of Federal Parliament’s workplace culture and on culture reviews aimed at preventing and responding to sexual misconduct in university residential colleges.

Jack has a first-class honours degree in philosophy from the University of Sydney. His honours research focused on how the approach to reform of the 18th century political thinker and politician Edmund Burke could help us think about reform in our own time. As an undergraduate, Jack was awarded the Wentworth Medal — the University of Sydney's most prestigious literary award — for an essay on the unintended consequences of social media for democracy.

He will be beginning his MSt in History (Intellectual History) at Oxford University in October 2023.