Kensa Broadhurst

Kensa Broadhurst completed her PhD examining the status and use of the Cornish Language in the period 1777-1904 at the ICS with funding from the Cornwall Heritage Trust. Kensa completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for Cornwall Council: evaluating the Cornish Distinctiveness Programme and the 2015-25 Cornish Language Strategy; and reporting on the case for Cornish Language Education in Secondary Schools and preliminary results of a survey regarding Cornish Minority Status. Kensa teaches and examines Cornish from beginner to undergraduate level. Her research considers historical use of Cornish and formal and informal education in the language. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal History Society and the Higher Education Academy.

Email: k.Broadhurst@exeter.ac.uk 

Selected Publications:

'Lymbo yw or'nys dhodho: Does Gwreans an Bys Reflect Post-Reformation Belief in Cornwall?' Quaestio Insularis 22. https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications/quaestio/index.html

'‘Cronnack an hager dhu’ Sign of a flourishing language? Efforts to Advance Cornish by the Cornish Language Community in the COVID-19 Pandemic.' Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40: 2021. 

‘Cornish: Can an Indigenous Language Become a Fixture in the Local Primary Curriculum?’
In: Blyth, C. (ed) ‘Other’ Voices in Education—(Re)Stor(y)ing Stories. Springer, Singapore, 2023

Humberstone, Katy and Broadhurst, Kensa. ‘Cornish.’ Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.22556693