In February of 2025, Jack founded Jack Doyle Education & Training to provide interactive learning and consulting about LGBTQ and trans identities and culture via history, policy, current events, pop culture, and lived experiences, customized to an organisation’s needs. “I often work with people who are not LGBTQ, educating about the impact of homophobia for people in their organizations or workplace who are members of the LGBTQ communities. I also do targeted work around trans healthcare and how it differs from the healthcare for those not in the trans community.”

Prior to being self-employed, Jack completed his doctorate in First World War history at the University of Oxford, where he taught and developed courses on warfare and gender studies. “I never thought I’d be a teacher! I had worked in journalism and community organizing throughout university, then I got a lectureship after getting my PhD and fell in love with teaching. While working with my students, I revisited some of my formative relationships with teachers, like Karen Bovard and David Holdt who were not only my teachers, but also mentors when I was young. That has helped shape my approach to my current students.”

While teaching, Jack also ran Spectra Trans Health Advocacy Service, a leading London-based service for trans- and gender-nonconforming healthcare justice and support. A nationally recognised expert in British trans healthcare, Jack has consulted the UK government, NHS, and large public and private organisations in developing policy and best practice. This work was a natural extension of his experiences with grassroots community organizing, including co-founding Oxford Mutual Aid, one of the UK’s largest on-going emergency food distribution responses to Covid-19, and local and national LGBTQ health advocacy. “LGBTQ students came together as an emergency COVID response, and grew to become something larger than they had ever hoped. To this day, a few hundred households this week get emergency, free food parcels across Oxfordshire.” While sharing these stories, Jack reflected fondly that former Global Studies Chair Steve Riege was a strong mentor for him in this kind of work.

During Jack’s time at Watkinson, he was active in theater, art, and writing. He recalls that when he arrived at Watkinson he was, “…instantly happier. I was allowed to take courses for older students, allowing me to find some meaningful challenges at a relatively young age. While I wasn’t out when I was at Watkinson, I was in spaces where I felt deeply comfortable and people on campus accepted me for who I was.”