Olu Jenzen

Eastham, R., McDermott, E., McNulty, F., Hughes, E., Johnson, K., Jenzen, O., Pryjmachuk, S., & Mateus, C. (2025). Equitable access to mental health support for LGBTQ+ young people: an intersectional youth rights approach. Feminism and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535251372600

Jenzen, O., (2025). Create/Connect: Using Creative methods in participatory research with trans and gender diverse young people, in Bastable, E. G. & Wanick, V. (eds). A how-to guide to creativity in policymaking. University of Southampton.
https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/P1243

Mcnulty, F., Mcdermott, E., Eastham, R., Hughes, E., Johnson, K., Davis, S., Pryjmachuk, S., Mateus, C., & Jenzen, O. (2025). Being, doing, deciding: cisheteronormativity, bodily autonomy, and mental health support for LGBTQ+ young people. Youth, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5020053

Burdsey, D., Tomlinson, A., Jenzen, O., Church Gibson, P., & Campbell, P. (2025). ‘There’s a brand new dance’: fashion in English men’s and women’s professional football. Annals of Leisure Research, 28(3), 419-436. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2025.2482641

McDermott, E., Eastham, R., Huges, E., Pattison, E., Johnson, K., Davis, S., Pryjmachuk, S., Mateus, C., Jenzen, O., & McNulty, F. (2024). Early mental health intervention and supported self-care for LGBTQ+ young people in the UK: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 12(47). Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.3310/KYWA6382

Kavoura, A., & Jenzen, O. (2024). “Having an unfair advantage” vs “playing by the Rules”: media discourses of trans Women’s participation in the Olympics. Feminist Media Studies, 1–16.

Lewin, T. & Jenzen, O. (2023). LGBTQ+ Visual Activism, in Lilleker, D. & Veneti, A. (eds) Research Handbook on Visual Politics, Edward Elgar, pp. 283-296.

Jenzen. O. (2022). LGBTQ Youth Cultures and Social Media. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press.

Jenzen, O., & Lewin, T. (2022). Global queer and feminist activism: An introduction. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change 7(2), 09. Open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/12750

O’Riordan, K., Jenzen, O. & Nelson, S. L. (2022). Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education. Sexualities, Open Access, OnlineFirst, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221088148

Korkut, U., McGarry, A., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., & Jenzen, O. (2022). Looking for truth in absurdity: Humour as community-building and dissidence against authoritarianism. International Political Science Review, 43(5): 629–647. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120971151

Pattinson, E.M., McDermott, E., Eastham, R., Hughes, E., Johnson, K., Davis, S., Pryjmachuk, S., Jenzen, O. & Mateus, C.(2021). Tackling LGBTQ+ youth mental health inequality: mapping mental health support across the UK. The British Student Doctor Journal, 5(3): 20–29. Open Access DOI: http://doi.org/10.18573/bsdj.289

McDermott, E., Eastham, R., Hughes, E., Pattinson, E., Johnson, K., Davis, S., Pryjmachuk, S., Mateus, C. & Jenzen, O. (2021). Explaining effective mental health support for LGBTQ+ youth: A meta-narrative review. Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health, 1(100004): 1-9. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100004

Jenzen, O., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Korkut, U. & McGarry, A. (2020). The figure of social media in contemporary protest. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 27(2): 414-437. Open Access DOI: 10.1177/1354856520933747

Jenzen, O. (2020). A Queer Tension: The difficult comedy of Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette. Film Studies 22(1): 30-46.

Jenzen, O., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Güçdemir, D., Korkut, U., McGarry, A. (2020). Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube, in McGarry, A. et al. (eds) The Aesthetics of Protest: Global Visual Culture and Communication, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 211-231. Open Access.

McGarry, A., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Jenzen, O. & Korkut, U. (2020). Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, in McGarry, A. et al. (eds) The Aesthetics of Protest: Global Visual Culture and Communication, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 15-35. Open Access.

Eslen-Ziya, H., McGarry, A., Jenzen, O., Erhart, I. & Korkut, U. (2019). From anger to solidarity: The emotional echo-chamber of Gezi park protests. Emotion, Space and Society 33(100632): 1-9. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100632

McGarry, A., Jenzen, O., Eslen-Ziya, H., Erhart, I. & Korkut, U. (2019). Beyond the iconic protest images: The performance of ‘everyday life’ on social media during Gezi Park. Social Movement Studies 18(3): 284-304. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1561259

Brydon, L., Jenzen, O. & Nourse, N. (2019). ‘Our Pier’: Leisure activities and local communities at the British seaside. Leisure/Loisir 43(2): 205-228. DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2019.1613171

Skey, M., Stone, C., Jenzen, O. & Mangan, A. (2018). Mediatization and sport: A bottom-up perspective. Communication & Sport 6(5): 588-604. Open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479517734850

Jenzen, O. (2017). Trans youth and social media: Moving between counterpublics and the wider Web. Gender, Place and Culture 24(11): 1626-1641. Open Access DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1396204

Jenzen, O. & Brydon, L. (2017). Pop(-up)ular Culture at the Seaside: The British Pleasure Pier as Screening Space, in Atkinson, S. & Kennedy, H.W. (eds) Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 43-59.

Jenzen, O. & Karl, I. (2014). Make, share, care: Social media and LGBTQ youth engagement. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology no 5. Open Access https://adanewmedia.org/2014/07/issue5-jenzenkarl/

Jenzen, O. (2014). Queer Teeth: Exploring Traumatic Health Legacies, in Zeeman, L. et al. (eds) Queering health: Critical Challenges to Normative Health and Healthcare. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS, pp.176-196.

Other publications

Jenzen, O. & Brydon, L. (2020). Cinema on stilts – British Pleasure Piers and pop-up screening events. Blog for InMediaRes.

Jenzen, O. (2019). LGBTQ teenagers are creating new online subcultures to combat oppression, in The Conversation, 31 January.

Jenzen, O. (2018). From billboards to Twitter, why the aesthetics of protest matters more today, in The Conversation, 14 June.

McGarry, A. & Jenzen, O.  (2017). Gezi Park: How did visual communication between protesters help create a movement? in Open Democracy, 5 December. Available at:

Jenzen, O. (2017). K.D. Lang and Cindy Crawford on Vanity Fair’s cover, 1993, in Photoworks Annual 24, 12-13.

Jenzen, O., Nourse, N. & Curme, P. (2016). Popular Culture on Clevedon Pier. [Brochure].

Jenzen, O. & Nourse, N. (2016). Jukebox Culture; Teddy Boys and Girls; Seaside Youth Culture and Teen Romance; Dancing on the Pier [Podcasts produced from our oral history data]. Clevedon Pier Visitor Centre.

Jenzen, O. & Allsorts Youth Project (2014). Social Media @ Allsorts, in Lockton, D. et al. (eds) Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack: Inspiring digital ideas from community projects. [Case study co-produced with a group of young people]