Jim Reid is a Reader in Education and Director of the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES). He also co-ordinates the taught Doctor of Education programme and QS for education. He is a Leverhulme International Research Fellow (2025) and visiting research fellow at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa where he collaborates on a National Research Foundation funded project on Family Capabilities. He was previously Co-I on the the award winning AHRC funded Life-Saving Lullabies project to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Zambia. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a peer reviewer for EU Horizon.