Susannah Eckersley is Professor of Critical Heritage and Memory Cultures at Newcastle University and Director of the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research is interdisciplinary, with expertise in identities, contested belonging and populism; memory and difficult histories; migration, diversity and representation, in Europe. She addresses the ways these issues are represented, reflected or neglected in the work of museums and heritage, in commemorations and protests, and in the wider politics of heritage and memory.
She leads the AHRC-DFG funded collaborative research project ‘Cultural Dynamics: Museums and Democracy in Motion’ (2023-2026). She has led and participated in several international research projects. Further details are available in her full bio. She is founding co-editor of the Routledge book series ‘Critical Heritages of Europe’, a member of the advisory board of Museum Friedland and has published on museums, heritage, memory, culture and belonging.
