Schoolof Law, Social Sciences and CommunicationsHonorary Degree of Doctor of Arts
Suzanne Bardgett is Head of Research at the Imperial War Museum, London. After working in the fields of education, publications and exhibitions at the Museum, from 1986 to1995 she was General Editor of the Imperial War Museum Review. From 1995 to 2000 she led the team that created the Holocaust Exhibition, and subsequently directed the exhibition Crimes Against Humanity: An Exploration of Genocide and Ethnic Violence. From 2004 to 2007 she facilitated a Bosnian team’s creation of the Srebrenica Memorial Room in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
From 2008 she led a programme to reinvigorate research at the Museum. She is one of the four organisers of the conference Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current Research into Survivors of Nazi Persecution; has published numerous articles and edited two books: Belsen 1945: New Historical Perspectives, and Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle Volumes 1 and 2.
