Skip to main content
Search for something
Search...

Our People

Sue Bradley

Visiting Researcher in Oral History

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3267
Background

Sue Bradley is Visiting Researcher in Oral History in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (Centre for Rural Economy), and a member of Newcastle University’s Oral History Collective: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history/2018/08/06/introducing-sue-bradley-our-third-research-associate/


Her research includes animal, veterinary and sensory histories and working with archived oral histories. She has worked on major projects in the environmental, agricultural and cultural sectors, and is interested in how oral history can inform debates about present concerns.


Sue was responsible for the oral history strand of FIELD (Farm-level Interdisciplinary Approaches to Endemic Livestock Disease), a research project funded by the Wellcome Trust: https://field-wt.co.uk/. Her current work includes exploring how oral histories from FIELD can promote conversations about the health and wellbeing of sheep, cattle, shepherds and farmers.


Blog posts include

'Sunshine in the Elizabeth Roberts Working-Class Archive' (site: The Oral Historian)

https://theoralhistorian.com/2022/02/07/sunlight-in-the-elizabeth-roberts-working-class-oral-history-archive-sue-bradley/


'Rosemary Goad' (site: British Library Sound and Vision blog) 

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2022/01/rosemary-goad.html


'Animals in Store' (site: The Lug) 

https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history/2021/11/22/animals-in-store/

 

Previous projects include:

·   2018-23 FIELD: Farm-level Interdisciplinary Approaches to Endemic Livestock Disease. A Wellcome-funded project led by Professor Abigail Woods (SB's role: oral historian).

·    2017-18 Working with Animals: health implications for vets and farmers since 1945. A research strand contributing to the large-scale 'One Medicine: Investigating human and animal disease' led by Professor Abigail Woods (SB's role: oral historian).

·     2016-18 Veterinary Voices of Experience, an ESRC-funded pilot study of how personal testimony can be used to generate dialogue and reflective learning (in partnership with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Co-led by Sue and Professor Andrew Gardiner of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at Edinburgh University).

·     2010 – Veterinary Lives in Practice, an oral history collaboration between the Centre for Rural Economy, RCVS Knowledge at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the British Library (SB led).  

·     2014-16 A History of Women in the British Film and Television Industries. AHRC-funded study led by Vicky Ball and Melanie Bell (SB's role: oral historian).

·     2012-13 Understanding Honeybee Health Stakeholders (Defra-commissioned study led by Dr Karen Scott).

·     2011-12 The Hidden Work of Beekeepers (a comparative study of beekeeping in North East England and Orkney, led by Dr Karen Scott).

·     2010-11 Engagement Co-ordinator of Northern Rural Network, a knowledge transfer network of rural development practitioners, local authorities, public agencies, the voluntary sector, and academic researchers. Barrow in Furness.

·     2007-10 Knowledge Controversies in Environmental Science. A 3-year Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) project where a team of social and natural scientists worked with communities to explore contested methods of managing flood risk (led by Professors Neil Ward, Sarah Whatmore and Stuart Lane).

·     1998-2007 National Life Stories (British Library Sound Archive): interviewer/researcher responsible for Book Trade Lives, an oral history archive of publishing and bookselling in Britain since the 1920s.


Research
Memory, narrative and subjectivity, and in particular: how oral history can be employed to generate further dialogue (e.g. in teaching and collaborative research) and to convey tacit knowledge, hands-on expertise and sensory experience; the impact of the voice in oral history.
Publications

  • Articles

    • Bradley S. Hobday's hands: recollections of touch in veterinary oral histories. Oral History 2021, 49(1), 35-48.
    • Liddon A, Bradley S, Lowe P. Securing the Veterinary Role in Society, Veterinary Record, vol. 169, pp. 302-303. 2011.
    • Lane S, Odoni N, Whatmore S, Landström C, Ward N, Bradley S. Doing flood risk science differently: an experiment in radical scientific method, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 36, pp. 15-36. 2011.
    • Landström C, Whatmore S, Lane S, Odoni N, Ward N, Bradley S. Co-producing flood risk knowledge: redistributing expertise in participatory modeling, Environment and Planning A, vol. 43, pp. 1617-33. 2011.
    • Bradley S. (Series co-ordinator) Veterinary Social Science series: Liddon, A., Bradley, S. & Lowe, P. (2011) Securing the veterinary role in society. Veterinary Record 169, 302-303. Enticott, G., Lowe, P. & Wilkinson, K. (2011). Neoliberal reform of the veterinary profession. VeterinaryRecord 169, 327-329. Gardiner, A., Lowe, P. & Armstrong, J. (2011) Who or what is a veterinary specialist? Veterinary Record 169, 354-356. Clarke, K. & Jones, C. (2011) Taking up the public health challenge. Veterinary Record 169, 384-385. Proctor, A., Lowe, P., Phillipson, J. & Donaldson, A. (2011) Veterinary field expertise. Veterinary Record 169, 408-410. 2011.
    • Donaldson A, Ward N, Bradley S. Mess Among Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in environmental research. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(7), 1521-1536.
    • Whatmore S, Landstrom C, Bradley S. Democratising Science, Science and Public Affairs,British Association for the Advancement of Science, June: 17. 2008.
    • Bradley S. Tony Pocock (obituary), The Independent, 26 March 2003. 2003.
    • Bradley S. This Wonderful Life, The Bookseller, 19 April 2002. 2002.
    • Bradley S. Reginald Last (obituary), The Independent, 22 June 2002. 2002.
    • Bradley S. Avoir écrire sa vie, gène-t-il pour en parler? (translated by Lejeune, P.) La Faute au Rousseau, no. 25, October 2000. 2000.

  • Digital or Visual Media

    • Bradley S, Perks R. Book Trade Lives (CD of edited audio interviews), London: British Library Sound Archive, 2002. 2002.

  • Edited Books

    • Bradley S, ed. The British Book Trade: An Oral History, London: British Library. 2008.
    • Bradley S, ed. Tell me the Day, Exeter, Artshare, 1996. 1996.
    • Bradley S, ed. The Lost Resort: Bournemouth in Wartime, Dorchester, Dorset Libraries, 1995. 1995.
    • Bradley S, ed. Telling Moments, Yeovil, South Somerset District Council, 1995. 1995.
    • Bradley S, ed. Archives biographiques françaises, London, Bowker-Saur, 12 parts, 1988-91. 1991.

  • Note

  • Reports

    • Scott K, Reed MS, Bradley S, Bryce R, Curzon R. Understanding Honey Bee Health Stakeholders; Report for Defra: PH051. 2013.
    • Stassart P, Bradley S, Donaldson A. Running an interdisciplinary competency group. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. Centre for Rural Economy Discussion Paper Series 19.