Dr Jennifer Buckingham, OAM
Jennifer Buckingham is Executive Director, Policy and Evidence at the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. Prior to holding this position she was Director of Strategy at MultiLit and a Senior Research Fellow in the MultiLit Research Unit. She is also founder and director of the FIVE from FIVE reading project, a policy research and advocacy campaign to bridge the gap between evidence and practice in reading instruction.
Jennifer has been writing on education policy for more than two decades, and has published papers on school choice, school funding, literacy, international assessments, NAPLAN and My School, religious schools, boys’ education, teacher training and employment, class size, and educational disadvantage. She is frequently invited to provide advice to governments and other school authorities.
Jennifer’s doctoral research was on effective interventions for struggling readers. She is author of Effective Instruction in Reading and Spelling (MRU Press, 2023)
Jennifer is a board member of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) and a Churchill Fellow.
