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Jenni Skinner

Jenni Skinner

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Jenni Skinner is the African Specialist and Library Manager of the African Studies Library, supporting the research and teaching needs of the University鈥檚 Undergraduate and Postgraduate study of Africa, as part of the World Collections Department at Cambridge University Library.

Jenni Skinner

Jenni spent the formative years of her career in librarianship at the Social & Political Sciences Library (2002-2015) at the University of Cambridge before moving to her current role at the African Studies Library.
Within Cambridge, she has previously held Co-Chair roles of the Race Equality Network and the Faculty and Departmental Librarians Network. Currently, Jenni is a member of the Decolonising through Critical Librarianship group, who were winners of the Professional Services Recognition Scheme Awards 2022 in the Cross-University category and with whom she has co-authored the chapter in the edited volume "Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries".

Jenni is a Cambridge University Libraries Decolonisation Working Group representative, advisor on the Black Advisory Hub Steering Group, and a member of the 麻豆宿舍电视剧College Cambridge REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage) Research Hub Steering Group.

More broadly, she is Chair of SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) and is a member of the Editorial Committee for the joint journal of the International African Institute and SCOLMA, "Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation".

Building on this network of African Studies specialists in libraries and archives in the UK, she is also an elected member of the ASAUK Council (African Studies Association of the UK).

With a passion for equity of access to libraries and information, she has worked closely with student societies and research networks such as the Black Cantabs Research Society, FLY Network, Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar Series, and coordinated and hosted the student-curated African Literature Book Club to promote engagement with students of culturally diverse and global majority backgrounds within the Cambridge context.

Jenni has a keen interest in the visual arts, with a focus on the visual representation of the global majority, and has hosted two contemporary photography exhibitions 鈥楪eneration Z鈥, and 鈥楽tories of Kalingalinga鈥 in conjunction with Dr Kerstin Hacker from Cambridge School of Arts. Moving forward Jenni will continue to work with African Lens & Maona Art with a view to supporting future discussions similar to their recent collaboration 鈥滻nsight: virtual conversations with African photographers and filmmakers鈥; as well as the anticipated launch of the next photography exhibition at the Centre of African Studies 鈥淲omen in Perspective鈥 with Sudanese Collective & Network, Aswat Al Watan.

Currently, Jenni is involved in digitisation projects to uncover and provide access to African archival materials in Cambridge and internationally. These include the Mellon-funded collaborative international project: 鈥淎frican Poetry Digital Portal鈥 hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the recently concluded "Carnegie RCS Southern African Collections" project with the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections at the UL. Building on these collaborations she supported creative practitioners and CVC Fellows, Sana Ginwalla and Kerstin Hacker on their exciting artistic intervention in the RCS collections 鈥淎n Exhibition That Nobody Will See鈥. This collaboration will continue in the summer of 2024 including two new Zambian photographers in the next iteration of the project 鈥淩e-entangling the Visual Archive鈥.

She is looking forward to expanding on her close working partnership with Dr Kenny Monrose as part of the REACH Research Hub at Wolfson, specifically in the curation of a culturally important audio-visual archive addressing race relations in Britain.

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Race, Policing and Me - Inclusive Leadership in the 21st Century

14/11/2024 at 17.30

Organised by Wolfson's REACH Hub, this ongoing series explores the theme of racism via different lenses.

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Art Exhibition: 'On Being One'

16/11/2024 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'On Being One' featuring work by visual artist Sophy Rickett.

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WolfWorks - Critical Reading and Note Making

16/11/2024 at 10.00

Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of reading you have?  Do you have a good system in place for making succinct and useful notes?

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Lunchtime Concert Series: Themes and Variations

16/11/2024 at 13.30

Join us for a recital by student pianist Peter Ng and baritone Sergi Savanelli

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Why writing at PG level is hard (and what you can do to make it a bit easier)

19/11/2024 at 17.30

Having difficulty writing at the postgraduate level? Join Professor Karen Ottewell as she discuss the steps you can take to make your writing more effective.

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