Dr Suzy O’Hara

Dr Suzy O’Hara is a Lecturer in Digital Arts and Enterprise in the School of Art, Design and Performance at University of Sunderland, where she leads CoLab Sunderland. As a curator, educator, and practice led scholar, her research is concerned with exploring the central role that art-making and curatorial praxis play in addressing pressing environmental and social challenges impacting society. Recent projects include curating public programmes that explore the role that cross - sector curatorship and interdisciplinary artmaking can play in engaging local communities with pioneering Big Data scientific discovery, marine environment and heritage protection, and urgent practical challenges caused by coastal erosion. With Victoria Bradbury, she is the co-editor of Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement (Routledge, 2020).