Before joining APSS in 2020, Jackson had served in different tertiary institutions and the government, and in 2007 he joined the General Education Centre (GEC) of PolyU. Since then, he has been responsible for teaching/tutoring political science as well as China/Hong Kong-related subjects, including a service-learning subject, Social Poverty in Developing Countries, where he brought students to Cambodia to provide services to the poor people in a village three hours away from the capital city Phnom Penh. While in GEC, he has been awarded Faculty/School Award for Outstanding Performance and Achievement in Teaching Award (2007-2008) [Group award] and the Performance Reward (2010) [Individual award].
 
In addition to teaching, Jackson is also interested in different areas and one of which is the environment. Over the years, he organized a number of interest groups bringing to the attention of both the students and staff of the University the environmental situation of Hong Kong and bringing them to different places related to the Hong Kong environment so as to enrich their understanding of the situation, as well as to provide them first-hand and real-life experiences, especially about the environmental problems that Hong Kong was facing. Places that he had brought the students and staff to were: the Tseung Kwan O landfill (SENT) and Tuen Mun landfill (WENT), T-Park, Kowloon Bay Plastic Recycling Centre, Lau Choi Kee Recycling Plant, Food Angel, Yan Oi Tong Eco-Park Plastic Resources Recycling Centre, Integrated Waste Solutions Group Holdings Limited, as well as WEEE Go Green of St James Settlement.  Furthermore, being the Green Officer of GEC he also helped the Centre win the Green PolyU Award (Bronze) in AY 2018-2019.

• MA (CUHK)
• MA (Hull)
• B. Soc Sc (LU)