Dr Tom Harrison is a Reader in Character Education Pedagogy and Practice and Director of Education for the Jubilee Centre. His specialist interests are character education and virtue ethics, character, wisdom and the Internet, youth social action and citizenship education. He has published extensively in these areas as well as developing resources and training programmes for schools, voluntary sector and other organisations. Tom is regularly invited to speak on the topic to audiences around the world.

Tom is also the Programme Director for the MA in Character Education, a senior HEA fellow and has recently been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. He is also Trustee and Secretary for the Society for Educational Studies (SES) and Secretary and Trustee for the Association for Character Education (ACE).

Tom lives in Derbyshire with his wife and their two children.