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Ben Jenkins

Ben Jenkins

Senior Lecturer

Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé School of Art & Design

Staff Group(s)
Graphic Design

Role

Dr. Jenkins’ role is to teach contextual studies through seminars, lectures and individual tutorials. He runs the Level 2 Design in Context module and is a tutor on the Level 1 Design in Context module and Level 3 Dissertation module.

Career overview

  • 1990 BA (Hons) University of Manchester
  • 1995 MA University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé
  • 2014 PhD University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé

Dr. Jenkins has been with Graphic Design at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé since 2002. He has also taught in Secondary Education and in Further Education.

Research areas

Dr. Jenkins’ PhD was on the American social theorist Philip Rieff. He has a wider interest in post-war American intellectual history, particularly the counterculture of the 1960s.

External activity

Dr. Jenkins’ recent conference papers:

  • ‘Design and Technology: Questions for the Future’ at the ‘Future Trends in Visual Communication Design Conference’, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé 2017
  • ‘Dancing with Panthers: Black Power at the SuperBowl’ at the ‘Revisiting Nostalgia and the Hyperreal’ Symposium, Oxford Brookes, 2018