Aaron Jackson

Dr Aaron Jackson is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Monash University, where he joined in 2025. His research examines the intersection of care, embodiment, and cognitive disability, exploring how caregiving practices shape relationality across family life, support services, and experiences of loss through qualitative and interpretive methodologies.

His educational background includes a PhD from the University of Melbourne's School of Social and Political Sciences. Prior academic roles comprise postdoctoral research and coordination of the Master of Disability Practice at La Trobe University's Living with Disability Research Centre, along with anthropology lecturing at the University of Melbourne (2019-2022).

Research interests span:

• Care theory and moral re-orientations in disability contexts
• Embodiment and masculinity in caregiving
• Phenomenological approaches to intellectual disabilities
• Bereavement and relational loss
• Creative nonfiction as anthropological expression
• Person-centred service frameworks

His methodological toolkit emphasizes ethnography, in-depth interviews, life history analysis, and narrative techniques.

Key research contributions include the ethnographic monograph Worlds of Care (University of California Press, 2021) analyzing fathers' experiences raising children with cognitive disabilities, longitudinal studies on Disability Support Accommodation quality, and evaluation of the NSW Council for Intellectual Disability's 'My Rights Matter' initiative (2022-2024) promoting decision-making autonomy.