Su lectures in Human Geography. Her research focuses on the spatial politics of cultural planning and policy and its alternatives. This has involved initiating new perspectives on everyday experience of communities of interest who are implicated in forms of cultural planning but both operate within and exceed the discursive space which policy occupies. Most recently, she has examined these issues in the context of how the resident as political subject is mediated by the presence of Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games.A current research project concerns the place-making efforts of New Town Development Corporations in the UK in the last phase of New Town construction in the 1970’s. The work seeks to gather accounts of residents experiences of living in the New Town at Warrington. Her research
more...Su lectures in Human Geography. Her research focuses on the spatial politics of cultural planning and policy and its alternatives. This has involved initiating new perspectives on everyday experience of communities of interest who are implicated in forms of cultural planning but both operate within and exceed the discursive space which policy occupies. Most recently, she has examined these issues in the context of how the resident as political subject is mediated by the presence of Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games.A current research project concerns the place-making efforts of New Town Development Corporations in the UK in the last phase of New Town construction in the 1970’s. The work seeks to gather accounts of residents experiences of living in the New Town at Warrington. Her research is informed by her interdisciplinary background spanning film and photography, social and visual anthropology and draws from her PhD examining community responses to formal cultural planning and policy during Liverpool's Capital of Culture year in 2008 (Institute for Social and Spatial Transformation at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011).
