Staff Profile
Jess works in the Methods Hub, an interdisciplinary initiative funded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institutes: the Institute for Social Science, the Humanities Research Institute and Institute for Creative Arts Practice.
She is finishing her PhD in the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London. Jess's research uses a militant research methodology to understand contemporary notions of participation via an examination of her experience of participating in Corbynism and post-Corbynism. Themes addressed in her PhD include collective subjectivity, methodology, pedagogy, political strategy, and materiality. Her work draws on the immanent philosophical tradition and emancipatory political trajectories, including autonomous Marxism, feminism, and decoloniality.
Jess's academic background is in visual cultures, political science, international relations, and art history. She holds a MA with Distinction in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, and a First Class honours degree from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Jess has a background working in higher education and with young people.
She sits on the steering committee of the radical political education organisation, The World Transformed, was a Cumberland Lodge fellow between 2019 and 2021, and sits on the board of The Old Church, a community arts venue in Hackney, east London.
- Adams Jess. Emergent and ambivalent strategy in militant research. In: Hande Gulen, Ceyda Sungur, Adem Yesilyurt, ed. At the Frontiers of Everyday Life: New Research Practices and Imaginaries in Radical Geography. 2022. In Press.
- Adams J. The nomadic subject in student organising. Crossing Conceptual Boundaries 2022, 12(1), 5-20.