Dr Jennifer Buckingham FRSN CF
BSc (Hons) PhD
Non-Executive Director
Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM was appointed to the AITSL Board on 2 June 2015, reappointed in 2018, on 30 September 2021, and 1 October 2024.
Jennifer is Executive Director, Policy and Evidence at the NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. She was previously Director of Strategy and Senior Research Fellow at MultiLit, and Director of the Education Program at the Centre for Independent
Studies. She is also the founder of the Five from Five reading project, which aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in reading instruction.
Jennifer has published papers and articles on literacy, teacher education, school funding, international assessments, NAPLAN and My School, class size, and educational disadvantage and co-edited the textbook Effective Instruction in Reading and Spelling (MRU
Press, 2023). Her PhD research was on effective reading intervention for struggling and disadvantaged students. In 2017, she chaired an expert advisory panel for the Australian Government on the introduction of a national Year 1 literacy and numeracy
assessment. In 2022, Jennifer was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to look at literacy policy and practice in Ireland and the United Kingdom.