Jackie Reynolds
Jackie Reynolds is the Research Associate (Maternity Cover) for the Ages and Stages follow-on project: Translating Research into Practice (May-July 2013). She has an undergraduate degree in Applied Social Studies from Staffordshire University and a PhD in Social Gerontology from Keele University. Her key research interests are in arts engagement, community, social capital and ageing. Her PhD research investigated the meanings that older people attach to their participation in group arts activities throughout their lives. She has also worked at the Creative Communities Unit at Staffordshire University since 2006, where she teaches, provides consultancy and undertakes research relating to community practice and ageing, with a particular focus on volunteering, active citizenship and community arts. In August 2013, she was appointed as a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies at Staffordshire University.