Jill Decrop Ernst
Researcher. Research focus: rhetoric of (science) museums.
I am a PhD candidate in the Culture and Education research group at Ghent University.
I have a Research Master’s degree in Culture of Arts, Science, and Technologies where I wrote my thesis I am not an Academic: A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of the Self-Fashioning of bell hooks and Cornel West in Academia. After my studies, I became lead researcher and product owner on the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects for Stichting Academisch Erfgoed (SAE) and Things That Talk. In parallel, I co-designed workshops that use objects to open discussions about invisibility, inequality, exclusion, and compartmentalization. I later became project lead for education on the Tailor-Made Approach to Faculty Collections programme at the TU Delft University Library.
My doctoral research explores how science museums can balance their role as scientific authorities while recognizing the agency of their audiences and fostering active meaning-making, using dramatism and rhetoric as an overarching framework.
E jill.decropernst@ugent.be
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