Dr Tim Jackson BSc, PhD, MIET, FHEA

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Reader

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7506
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 4291
Email: t.j.jackson@bham.ac.uk

Address: Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
School of Engineering
Birmingham
B15 2TT
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tim is the Academic Lead for Postgraduate Taught, CPD and Distance Learning programmes within the College, and an academic lead for the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory. He is the Collaborative Provision Officer for a Foundation Degree at South and City College Birmingham. He has led on the design and delivery of science-based theatre in education projects and been an organiser of regional tournaments for the FIRST LEGO League.

Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education, University of Birmingham 2005
PhD in High Temperature Superconductivity, 1992
BSc (Hons) in Physics. Imperial College London

Biography

Tim Jackson qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Physics from Imperial College, London in 1988. He went on to research in High Temperature Superconductivity at the University of Birmingham leading to a PhD award in 1992. After a year away from academia he held research positions in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick (1992-1995), in the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge University (1995-1997) and in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham until 2000. These positions were mainly focussed on the deposition, analysis and applications of thin films of materials with interesting magnetic and electrical properties.

In 2000 Tim was awarded an Advanced Research Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He became a lecturer in 2005, a senior lecturer in 2010 and a Reader in 2018.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Machines and Analogue Electronics.
Final year and MSc design and research projects.
MSc-level teaching in design for learning environments.

Research

Tim previously undertook and led research studying the electromagnetic properties of materials, funded by national, international and industrial bodies and working across discipline boundaries. He has also published on Engineering Education and this remains an active interest.

Publications

A. Yapa, S. Evans and T. Jackson 2022 “Development of a Technique to Measure Voltages on CFRP Surfaces during Lightning Direct Effects Testing” International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity ICOLSE 2022 12-15^th September 2022, Madrid

T. Monti, O.B. Udoudo, K.A. Sperin, C. Dodds, S.W. Kingman and T.J. Jackson 2017 “Statistical description of Inhomogeneous Samples by Scanning Microwave Microscopy “IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 65(6) 2162-2170

G. Schileo, A. Dais, R.L. Moreira, T. J. Jackson, P.A. Smith, K.T.S. Chung and A. Feteira 2014 “Structure and Microwave Dielectric Properties of Low Firing Bi2Te2W3O16 ceramics” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 97(4) 1096-1102

S. Bull, A. Mabbott, P. Gardner, T.J. Jackson, M.J. Lancaster, S.F. Quigley, and P.A. Childs in Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems “Supporting Interaction Preferences and Recognition of Misconceptions with Independent Open Learner Models” 5149 69-72 (2008)

Tim Jackson “The Play’s The Thing” Engineering and Technology Education Summer 2011 issue 30-33 (2011)

Tim Jackson and Suzanne Gildert, “Superconductors – Powering the future, probing the past”, Catalyst Secondary Science Review 19(3) 16-19 (2009)

View all publications in research portal

Expertise

The electromagnetic properties of materials particularly at microwave frequencies; mainly for applications in communications technologies; use of theatre techniques for communication of science and engineering to the public; Inter-disciplinary research including Physics, Electrical Engineering and Materials.