Her research interests include comparative politics and history; memory politics in Europe, in settler colonial societies, and transnationally; civic activism, social movements, and democratisation; the memory of slow-moving and large-scale change; children and families in history and memory; and qualitative and network methodology.

She has held various leadership positions, particularly as one of the founding Co-Presidents of the Memory Studies Association (together with Aline Sierp and Jeffrey Olick).

Jenny is Chair of the COST Action CA20105 on Slow Memory, which will run from 2021–2025.

She was also the founding Co-Chair of the Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity in Europe in the Council for European Studies and the Co-Chair of the German Studies Association‘s Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Network.

Jenny is currently a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Post-Socialist Britain?