Lead supervisor:
Prof Bella Dicks 
Start date: October 2019
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Sociology / Science and Technology Studies
Thematic Cluster:
Society and Well-Being Cluster
Youth Engagement with Culture and Herritage sites
Jade Jenkins’s research concerns improving practice and policy to aid young people in having meaningful and empowering experiences with cultural sites such as museums.
She is keenly interested in the benifits of young people engageing creatively with culture but also the issues that the area faces. Young people can face many barriers to participation and there are contemporary challenges around representation, inclusivity and tokenism.
This research will utilise case studies, observations and interviews to gather an in-depth understanding of the challenges currently facing the field as well as piloting projects to test new working practices with the aim of informing policy for cultural sites.