After a career in teaching and counselling, Jane joined the School of Education at the University of Bristol, where she worked for over twenty years and established a series of radically qualitative research centres, culminating with ' ANI-net', the precursor of the independent international inquiry network: CANI-net. Jane has since retired from the univrersity and now works as a fine artist (painter) as well as continuing with her scholarly artful/writerly collaborations.
She continues to write and make art collaboratively as part of her scholarly work as well as maintaining her practice as a painter. Jane lives and works in both Bristol, England and St Davids, West Wales. Her practice as a painter is informed and materially resourced by both localities. She is concerned with sustainability in the world and in both her art/writing practices and the ideas that inform them.