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email: Jenna.Ashton@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Jenna C. Ashton is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies and arts-led researcher (Art History & Cultural Practices), Research Lead for Creative and Civic Futures (Creative Manchester platform), an Associate Member of the Sustainable Consumption Institute, and contributes to the Manchester Urban Institute and Sustainable Futures research networks. Jenna is a practising artist, curator, and producer, with over 15 years' experience of project collaboration and delivery.
Research interests include: community cultural practices, knowledge, and creativity; storytelling "place”; role of arts and heritage in society; ecofeminism and inequalities; anthrozoology; discard studies.
In 2017, Jenna was awarded an internationally competitive visiting Global Cultural Fellowship with the “Institute for International Cultural Relations”, Edinburgh University, working with thirty global curators, artists and policy makers exploring cultural exchange for addressing issues of human and environmental rights. She holds advisory and trustee roles in the UK and internationally.
Jenna is currently leading the project, "Community Climate Resilience through Folk Pageantry", AHRC, UK Climate Resilience Programme (2020-2023), and is a Co-I on “Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes of Rivers (CASTOR)”, funded by NERC Future of UK Treescapes programme (2021-2024). Previously, she was a Co-I on project: “Green Infrastructure and the Health and Wellbeing Influences on an Ageing Population (GHIA)”, NERC, Valuing Nature Fund (2016-2020). She is part of the "Cottonopolis Collective", AHRC (2021-).
Jenna is the founder and Creative Director of the arts and heritage organisation Digital Women’s Archive North (2015 -), and in 2019-2020 in collaboration with women artists, she co-founded the Centre for International Women Artists, a collective artist studio and gallery experiment in Manchester, UK. Jenna is also 1/4 of artist collective InsideOutsideHouse (2018 -).
Jenna teaches across critical heritage studies theory and practice, heritage policy and management, landscapes and environmental humanities, intangible cultural heritage, heritage and conflict, art curation, museums studies and practice, arts and the city, and contemporary arts.
Topics of interest:
Heritage activism
Artistic activism
Marginalised cultural heritage and arts practices
Spatial practice and creative geographies
Mutlispecies studies
Ecofeminism and heritage
Art under conflict and creative resistance
Creative reuse of industrial sites
Arts and craft of industry
Local memory and industrial heritage
Curatorial activism
Ethics of care
Affect and heritage
Making, play, storytelling
Material archive/ object cultures
Arts methods
Feminist methods
Creative Ethnography
Activities and esteem
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global inequalities
- Creative Manchester
- Sustainable Futures
- Digital Futures
- Manchester Environmental Research Institute
- Manchester Urban Institute
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Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Gender
Ashton, J. (ed.), 2025, (In preparation) Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Feminist Co-production: As a Crochet Textile Playground
Ashton, J., 2024, (In preparation) Intellect Books.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Following the dogs of Prishtina: Landscape as living memorial
Ashton, J., 2 Dec 2022, In: Landscape Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice
Dennis, M., Barker, A., Anderson, J., Ashton, J., Cavan, G., Cook, P. A., French, D., Gilchrist, A., James, P., Phillipson, C., Tzoulas, K., Wheater, P., Wossink, G. & Lindley, S., 6 Aug 2022, In: Ambio.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Streets Like These
Ashton, J., Malone, K., Shanahan, H. & Burke, K., 2022Research output: Other contribution
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CASTOR: Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes of Rivers (AWARD)
Dennis, M., Ashton, J., Da Conceicao Bispo, P., Huck, J. & Taylor, J.
1/08/21 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
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Community Climate Resilience through Folk Pageantry
Ashton, J., Lindley, S. & Malone, K.
1/08/20 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Research Partnership Development for the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Kosovo
Ashton, J. & Walmsley, J.
1/01/19 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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Green Infrastructure to Promote Health and Wellbeing in an Aging Population (GHIA)
Lindley, S., Barker, A., French, D., Gilchrist, A., O'Neill, J., Phillipson, C., Wossink, G. & Ashton, J.
1/07/16 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Consultation Submission - from the Cottonopolis Collective
Alison Leigh Browne (Contributor), Abi Stone (Contributor), Aurora Fredriksen (Contributor), Laura Richards (Contributor), David Polya (Other), Dongyang Mi (Contributor), Christopher Jackson (Contributor), Gareth Clay (Contributor), Jenna Ashton (Contributor) & Polyanna Da Conceicao Bispo (Contributor)
28 Mar 2022Activity: Other