Faculty Member, Cultural Policy and Management
Lecturer in Cultural Policy
About
Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Cultural Policy at City University London. Previously she was the full time Research Associate on the Performance, Learning and Heritage project at The University of Manchester, and before that, she completed a PhD at Cardiff University in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Jenny’s research interests include digital media, memory and the museum. She is co-editor of the 2010 volume Performing Heritage (Manchester University Press), and has published across the fields of media, cultural and museum studies.
Jenny teaches on Digital Cultures, Cultural Policy, Cultural Portfolio and Research for Professional Practice modules. She also supervises a number of PhDs.
Publications:
Kidd, J, [forthcoming], ‘The museum as narrative witness: heritage performance and the production of narrative space’ in McLeod et al, Narrative Space: , Routledge.
Kidd, J. 2011. ‘Performing the knowing archive: heritage performance and authenticity’ in The International Journal of Heritage Studies 17(1). 22-35.
Kidd, J. 2011. ‘Enacting Engagement Online: Framing social media use for the museum’ in Information, Technology and People. Vol. 24 no1. 64-77.
Hughes, J, with Kidd, J, and McNamara, C. 2011 ‘Applied Theatre: Interdisciplinarity and the research of practice’ in Kershaw, B, and Nicholson, H, Research Methods in Theatre Studies. Edinburgh University Press.
Jackson, A, and Kidd, J, 2010 ‘Cultivating Audience Engagement in Museum Theatre’ in the International Drama in Education Association publication
Jackson, A, and Kidd, J, (editors). 2010. Performing Heritage. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Kidd, J, [forthcoming 2010]. ‘The Costume of Openness: heritage performance as a participatory cultural practice’ in Jackson, A, and Kidd, J, Performing Heritage, Manchester: MUP.
Kidd, J. 2009. ‘Digital Storytelling and the performance of memory’ in Garde-Hansen, J, Hoskins, A, and Reading, A, Save as… Media and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan
Kidd, J. 2009. ‘Multimedia Narratives: co-production between museums and their audiences’ in the Journal of Cultural Policy, Criticism and Management No.4
Meadows, D, and Kidd, J. 2009. ’Capture Wales, The BBC Digital Storytelling project’ in Hartley, J, and McWiliam, K, Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the world. Wiley-Blackwell.
Kidd, J. 2009. ‘Capture Wales Digital Storytelling: Community Media meets the BBC’ in Rodriguez, C, Kidd, D, and Stein, L, (eds) Making Our Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
Hughes, C, Jackson, A, and Kidd, J. 2006. ‘The Role of Theater in Museums and Historic Sites: Visitors, Audiences, and Learners’ in Bresler, D. International Handbook of Research in Arts Education.
Kidd, J. 2006. ‘Digital Storytelling at the BBC: the reality of innovative audience participation’ available online at http://yle.fi/ripe/Papers/Kidd.pdf
Kidd, J. 2006. ‘Filling the Gaps?: Interpreting museum collections through performance’ in The Journal of Museum Ethnography, 19.
Kidd, J. 2005. ‘Capture Wales: Digital Storytelling at the BBC’ Cyfrwng: Wales Media Journal (2).
Kidd, J. 2002-2004. Digital Stories produced with the BBC (published on BBC website at www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling ) and the Centre for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley University.
Research Reports
Kidd, J, 2009, research report for the City of London Festival (unpublished)
Kidd, J, 2009, Mapping document and research report for MLA Challenging History project
Jackson, Anthony and Kidd, Jenny ‘Performance, Learning and Heritage’ final report, November 2008
Kidd, Jenny, Imagine Their Shadows. Evaluation of Manchester Museum Early Years output, June 2007.
