Jon Swain is a senior research officer at the Institute of Education, University College London. His professional career began as a primary school teacher in 1980, and in the late 1990s he did a part-time master’s in Primary Education at the Institute of Education, before completing his PhD in 2001 about boys’ masculinity. He carries out mainly qualitative research, which has included a series of numeracy and literacy projects in the post-16 sector, and has also written many articles on boys’ and young Black men’s masculinities. Between 2008–13 he was programme leader for the MPhil/PhD training programme. He has extensive experience of teaching on doctoral programmes, and he continues to supervise a number of doctoral students. Since 2019, he has also worked on the BA Education Studies degree, where he supervises undergraduate dissertations, alongside being a personal tutor.