Jack Jacobs is an historian and political theorist with a keen interest in cultural reform. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Sydney, with First Class Honours in Philosophy. His thesis focused on how the political thought of Edmund Burke could help us think about reform today. Jack is currently Yindyamarra Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, working with Stan Grant on ways to improve Australian democracy by achieving better outcomes for Indigenous people. Previously, Jack worked on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s review of Federal Parliament’s workplace culture, and on culture reviews of university residential colleges. With his World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Jack will undertake a Master of Studies in History at Oxford, comparing Edmund Burke and Mahatma Gandhi’s approaches to reforming Empire. In the future, Jack hopes to be a writer and public intellectual working in universities, think tanks, and the media to shape values and attitudes on key cultural issues.