Dr Jen Grove
Honorary Appointment
Twitter: @jenniferegrove
I am an interdisciplinary classicist and historian with a focus on public engagement and engaged research. My main areas of interest are:
- Public engagement and engaged research;
- Medical Humanities;
- History of sexuality; Queer History
- Classical Reception;
- History of art, collecting and museums;
- History of censorship and pornography;
- Sexual Health and Wellbeing; Relationships and Sex Education
Biography:
Academic Appointments
2015-2020 Engaged Research Fellow, University of Exeter. Wellcome-Trust funded project “The Cross-Disciplinary Invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940”. Joint primary investigators: Professor Kate Fisher and Dr Jana Funke.
2013-2014 Research Assistant, Sex and History Project, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
2009-2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter
2008 Research Assistant, Sex and History Project, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
Education
2009-2014 AHRC-funded PhD, University of Exeter. The collection and reception of sexual antiquities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Supervised by Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands. Examined by Barbara Borg, Daniel Orrells (KCL) and Vicky Coltman (Edinburgh).
2007-2008 MA Ethics, Religion and Society, University of Exeter (Distinction)
2003-2005 BA in Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter (First Class honours)
Memberships:
- NCCPE Public Engagement Professionals Network
- Society for the History of Collecting
- Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG)
- European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
- Arts Health Early Career Research Network
- Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
I am also a member of:
- Public Engagement Strategic Advisory Group, University of Exeter
- Community and Public Engagement Strategy Working Group, University of Exeter
- Selection panel for the Early Career Researcher Exploratory Awards, University of Exeter
- National LGBT History Month academic conference committee, Schools OUT UK
