Margaret Jobling is a researcher affiliated with the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She earned her PhD from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Queensland in 1995. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Motor development in school-aged children with Down Syndrome," was conducted as part of a research project at the Fred and Eleanor Schonell Special Education Research Centre.

Jobling's academic interests center on special education, particularly the literacy, numeracy, and motor skill development of adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities. She has collaborated extensively with Karen Moni on research projects examining these areas. Key publications include "LATCH-ON: A program to develop literacy in young adults with Down syndrome" (Moni & Jobling, 2000, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy), which details a literacy program that has been operational at the University of Queensland since 1998; "Reading-related literacy learning of young adults with Down syndrome" (Moni & Jobling, 2001); "Numeracy for adults with Down syndrome: It's a matter of quality of life" (Moni & Jobling, 2005, Down Syndrome Research and Practice); "Literacy skills of adults with intellectual disabilities in two community-based programs" (Morgan, Moni, & Jobling, 2004, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy); and "Code-breaking or meaning-making? The reading practices of adolescent and young adult students with Down syndrome" (Morgan, Moni, & Jobling, 2006). Her work also encompasses participatory research approaches to understanding literacy in this population.

In her career at UQ, Jobling has held roles including supervisor for postgraduate theses, such as the MPhil "Numerical ability of young adults with Down syndrome" (supervised jointly with Karen Moni). She served as Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP0452486 (2004), "Using participatory research to investigate what literacy looks like for adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome," which received $119,890 in funding. Additionally, she was Principal Investigator on a project titled "Intervention for written expression: Middle school students with learning difficulties," affiliated with the University of Queensland.