Dr Suzy O’Hara is a Lecturer in Digital Arts and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland. Suzy is a curator, educator and practice-led researcher exploring emerging models of cross-sector collaboration between Art, Innovation and Society. Suzy’s research explores critical and interdisciplinary modes of art-making that challenge perceived distinctions between sites of artistic, economic and knowledge production by brokering new, direct ways of working between them. Thereby Suzy reframes traditional understandings of the creative processes, research and outputs generated by art-making as central to securing social, economic and environmental justice within society. She is co-founder and research lead for Co/Lab Sunderland, an arts-led research platform designed to broker connections between diverse ecologies of knowledge and practice between researchers, cross-sector partners and stakeholders, and diverse local communities to drive creative innovation. Her research-led curatorial projects facilitate interdisciplinary contexts that foreground creative experimentation, knowledge generation, and collaborative creative production that generate outcomes that have societal value and positive impact in the world. In her current position as Lecturer in Digital Arts and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Suzy designs, delivers, and assesses the Collaborative Creativity module across Artist, Designer, Maker (Glass & Ceramics), Fine Art, and Photography, Video and Digital Imaging), is module lead for the Dissertation and Application module (Fine Art) and co-teaches within the Fine Art Methodologies module and the MA Visual Practice. She also supervises PhDs by practice-led research and by existent publication or creative works.