Sonia Jackson, OBE (born 1934) is a British academic and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London.
She later took a second degree in Natural Sciences (Psychology) at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a social worker with a Diploma from the London School of Economics (CQSW).
Subsequent jobs include working as a psychologist and social worker, NHS Child Psychiatric Clinic, welfare officer, editor of Where and executive director of Advisory Centre for Education (ACE).
[4] Research at UCL centered on post-compulsory education of children in care in England, Scotland and four other European countries (Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Hungary) as well as Australia and New Zealand.
[5][6] Jackson first married in 1956 to Philip Abrams d. 31 October 1981, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, later Professor of Sociology, University of Durham; they divorced in 1970.