Jennifer Rowsell
Jennifer is a Professor of Digital Literacy at the University of Sheffield, School of Education.
Jennifer has an enduring interest in the lived literacy practices (digital, print, media-driven, maker) of children and young people in formal and informal contexts. Jennifer has researched across a range of contexts with children all the way to older populations, often as shorter ethnographies from 8 weeks to 6 months and with an action research and, over the past two years, research creation lens on how people learn with and through literacies. Having collaborated significantly with Kate Pahl and writing about artifactual and living literacies, she has moved into more post-qualitative research that explores sociomaterial engagements because she believes that literacy research needs more expansive and dimensional ways to capture literacy lives. More recently, she has focused on the post-digital as the tacit and idiosyncratic ways that people of all ages and stages make meaning across digital/material/embodied/sensory texts. Of note, she is a co-editor of Reading Research Quarterly, Digital Culture & Education, and the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education book series.
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