Suzanne Bardgett

Background

About Suzanne Bardgett

Suzanne Bardgett is Head of Research and Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museums, where she is leading an initiative to reinvigorate research across the whole of IWM. From 2016 to 2021 she co-chaired IROC (the Independent Research Organisations Consortium) and still represents IWM on that group. Suzanne is Co-Investigator on a project led by Catherine Baker of Hull University to investigate a collection of videos made by UNTV in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina in the 1990s. She overseas the group of Collaborative Doctoral Partnership students studying PhDs at IWM, and is currently co-supervising Fabio Simonetti, a CDP student at Reading University studying Cultural Encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Second World War. Suzanne has published widely in both academic and more popular publications. Her book Wartime London in Paintings was published by IWM in 2020. From 1995 to Suzanne led the team that created the Holocaust Exhibition, the major narrative exhibition opened to public acclaim in Suzanne subsequently directed the exhibition Crimes against Humanity: an exploration of genocide and ethnic violence (opened 2002). From 2004 to 2007 Suzanne facilitated a Bosnian team’s creation of the Srebrenica Memorial Room in Bosnia-Hercegovina, an initiative supported by the FCO and Dutch Foreign Ministry.