Role
Ben is a Senior Lecturer on the Graphic Design BA (Hons) and leader of the Design in Context 2 and Design in Context 3: Dissertation modules.
Ben is primarily concerned with the delivery of contextual studies on the Graphic Design BA (Hons), looking at design in relation to a variety of social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. From gender to AI, from Black Power to branding, from psychedelic overload to minimalist restraint, he believes that designers should explore the different ways that their discipline has both changed the wider world and been influenced by it.
Career overview
- 1990 BA (Hons) University of Manchester
- 1995 MA University of Nottingham
- 2014 PhD University of Nottingham
Dr. Jenkins has been with Graphic Design at Nottingham Trent University 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.
Publications
‘Design and Technology: Questions for the Future’ at the ‘Future Trends in Visual Communication Design Conference’, Nottingham Trent University 2017
‘Dancing with Panthers: Black Power at the SuperBowl’ at the ‘Revisiting Nostalgia and the Hyperreal’ Symposium, Oxford Brookes, 2018