Jade Wong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is an organisational scholar who studies those professions and professionals who are devoted to making the world a better place. She probes how they navigate the complexities of their work through the bureaucratic thicket of paperwork and performance measures, in a context of mistrust for science and governments, where the institutions in which they work are often cast as part of the problem. Her research aims to help professionals, working in non-profit and public organisations, find significance in the work they do so that they can continue to do the best they can with what they’ve got.

Before joining Oxford, Jade earned a PhD in Social Work and Welfare at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice at the University of Chicago. She also holds an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Commerce and Economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. 

References: 

Wong, J. (2023). Role distance. An ethnographic study on how street-level managers cope. Journal of Public Administration Theory and Research. Advance online publication: https://doi-org.ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/10.1093/jopart/muad027

Mosley, J. E., & Wong, J. (2021). Decision-making in collaborative governance networks: Pathways to input and throughput legitimacy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 31(2), 328-345.

Wong, J., & Ortmann, A. (2016). Do donors care about the price of giving? A review of the evidence, with some theory to organise it. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27, 958-978.