Dr Alison Jackson founded the Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN), an independent support service for teacher educators in 2009. She was the Director of TEAN until 2019 and the editor of the TEAN journal, an academic peer-reviewed online journal, and the STeP journal (Student Teacher Perspectives), from 2009 to 2019.

She is has been a PhD supervisor since 2007 and has wide ranging interests as well as a focus on schools and teacher education. External examining for PhD students has concentrated on teacher education.