Publications

I have published books, toolkits and reports including:

• ‘The impact of collecting after sudden, unforeseen or violent events on the mental wellbeing of the record keeping workforce’ - Dr Kostas Arvanitis and Jen Kavanagh for the Archives and Records Association (2025)

• ‘Ethics of Contemporary Collecting’ - edited by Jen Kavanagh, Ellie Miles and Rosamund Lily West with Susanna Cordner (2024)

• ‘Contemporary Collecting: an ethical toolkit for practitioners’ - Ellie Miles, Susanna Cordner and Jen Kavanagh (2020) with London Transport Museum

• ‘Contemporary Collecting Toolkit’ - Museum Development North West and Jen Kavanagh (2019)

• 'Museum Participation: new directions for audience collaboration' - edited by Kayte McSweeney and Jen Kavanagh (2016)

• 'The power of participation for enriching displays and collections' in SPOKES magazine #19, ECSITE (2016) with Kayte McSweeney

• 'Embedding plurality: exploring participatory practice in the development of a new permanent gallery' in Science Museum Journal with Kate Bunning, Kayte McSweeney and Richard Sandell (2015)

• 'Collecting challenging contemporary history: terrorist attacks in London and New York' in Zelda Baveystock and Owain Rhys (2014) Collecting the Contemporary: A handbook for social history museums

Updated: 4 June 2026