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Suzanne Hall

Suzanne Hall

Director of Engagement

Biography

Suzanne is a highly skilled qualitative researcher with 20 years of public policy research experience. She led the qualitative research team at Ipsos MORI, an independent research agency, from 2013 and in that role was responsible for skills development, growing the business and embedding new and innovative approaches to solving policy problems with a focus on deliberative, participatory, ethnographic and digital methodologies. Suzanne has worked for both national and international clients across a range of policy areas including trust in government and polarisation, the value of evidence, work and welfare, ageing and inequality.

As Director of Engagement at the Policy Institute, Suzanne will be responsible for embedding qualitative and deliberative methods in the work of the Policy Institute, and developing new, innovative approaches to involving citizens in policy making, ensuring the work it does continues to have impact. Suzanne also represents the Policy Institute on the Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Committee

Research

London landscape
Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

Big Ben
Centre for British Democracy

The Centre for British Democracy is interested in the study of government and politics in the United Kingdom from an historical, political science, political theory and constitutional perspective.

NewVEMMain
Visual Embodied Methodologies Network

Creating spaces of knowledge-exchange and research excellence around visual, embodied and art-based methodologies within, across and beyond Social Sciences.

VEMHeroImage
Intersectional Gendered Violence

The project looks at sexual harassment against and among young people, resistance & activism among migrant women and conflict-related gendered trauma and pain.

Project status: Ongoing

Cladd web pics-02
Complex Life and Death Decisions group

The Complex Life and Death Decisions group (CLADD) is a King’s based group with expertise in psychiatry, palliative care, bioethics, public policy and law. Members of the group lead research in life and death decision-making (particularly in relation to mental health conditions and palliative care), contribute to policy development, professional guidelines and law reform, and have appeared in leading court cases.

News

ESRC Methods grant for innovative projects analysing the experience of gendered violence

The Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King’s has secured funding for projects on sexual harassment, conflict-related gendered trauma,...

Image showing the logo for the Visual Embodied Methodologies network

New installation on the Strand will imagine a climate-positive mythical world

Acclaimed design studio Superflux and King’s Culture present 'The Quiet Enchanting', an installation inspired by King’s climate and sustainability research

The Quiet Enchanting Web Resize Oct 2023

Who is responsible for tackling the cost-of-living crisis?

The Policy Institute is working with peer researchers to understand the impact of the cost-of-living crisis in three London boroughs

rasheed-kemy-OIWV0imL7DU-unsplash

CASCADE INQUIRY launched with an evening imagining hopeful climate futures

King’s researchers, artists, students, and the wider community gathered in The Exchange, Bush House to explore the power of imagination and collective action...

5 panellists in front of yellow-orange lighting and audience with a screen showing "Cascade Inquiry"

Events

18SepGendered urban violence among Brazilians - Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

Book launch: Gendered Urban Violence among Brazilians

Learn how creative engagements are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and generating empathetic change.

Please note: this event has passed.

18OctScreenshot 2023-10-11 at 09.51.00

Deliberation paving the way for democratization: Southeast Europe in focus

This lunch time seminar series is aimed at exploring the expanding world of deliberative research.

Please note: this event has passed.

04Julpexels-dominika-gregušová-672532

Trust in trouble: how can we do democracy differently?

Join our panel to discuss how we can do democracy differently, and how deliberative methods could help rebuild trust in our politics

Please note: this event has passed.

09MarLevellingup_desktop

What's next for "levelling up"?

Join us to discuss the current state of the levelling up agenda.

Please note: this event has passed.

08FebSuperflux press

CASCADE INQUIRY: Exploring hopeful climate futures

Join King's Culture for a generative discussion introducing CASCADE INQUIRY, a new initiative by Superflux that imagines climate-positive futures.

Please note: this event has passed.

25Jandeliberate2

Deliberation for all; what technologies and future thinking might we need to make deliberation more embedded in our societies?

This seminar series, aimed at exploring the expanding world of deliberative research, features guest speakers providing unique insights into the understanding...

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

London landscape
Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

Big Ben
Centre for British Democracy

The Centre for British Democracy is interested in the study of government and politics in the United Kingdom from an historical, political science, political theory and constitutional perspective.

NewVEMMain
Visual Embodied Methodologies Network

Creating spaces of knowledge-exchange and research excellence around visual, embodied and art-based methodologies within, across and beyond Social Sciences.

VEMHeroImage
Intersectional Gendered Violence

The project looks at sexual harassment against and among young people, resistance & activism among migrant women and conflict-related gendered trauma and pain.

Project status: Ongoing

Cladd web pics-02
Complex Life and Death Decisions group

The Complex Life and Death Decisions group (CLADD) is a King’s based group with expertise in psychiatry, palliative care, bioethics, public policy and law. Members of the group lead research in life and death decision-making (particularly in relation to mental health conditions and palliative care), contribute to policy development, professional guidelines and law reform, and have appeared in leading court cases.

News

ESRC Methods grant for innovative projects analysing the experience of gendered violence

The Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) Network at King’s has secured funding for projects on sexual harassment, conflict-related gendered trauma,...

Image showing the logo for the Visual Embodied Methodologies network

New installation on the Strand will imagine a climate-positive mythical world

Acclaimed design studio Superflux and King’s Culture present 'The Quiet Enchanting', an installation inspired by King’s climate and sustainability research

The Quiet Enchanting Web Resize Oct 2023

Who is responsible for tackling the cost-of-living crisis?

The Policy Institute is working with peer researchers to understand the impact of the cost-of-living crisis in three London boroughs

rasheed-kemy-OIWV0imL7DU-unsplash

CASCADE INQUIRY launched with an evening imagining hopeful climate futures

King’s researchers, artists, students, and the wider community gathered in The Exchange, Bush House to explore the power of imagination and collective action...

5 panellists in front of yellow-orange lighting and audience with a screen showing "Cascade Inquiry"

Events

18SepGendered urban violence among Brazilians - Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

Book launch: Gendered Urban Violence among Brazilians

Learn how creative engagements are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and generating empathetic change.

Please note: this event has passed.

18OctScreenshot 2023-10-11 at 09.51.00

Deliberation paving the way for democratization: Southeast Europe in focus

This lunch time seminar series is aimed at exploring the expanding world of deliberative research.

Please note: this event has passed.

04Julpexels-dominika-gregušová-672532

Trust in trouble: how can we do democracy differently?

Join our panel to discuss how we can do democracy differently, and how deliberative methods could help rebuild trust in our politics

Please note: this event has passed.

09MarLevellingup_desktop

What's next for "levelling up"?

Join us to discuss the current state of the levelling up agenda.

Please note: this event has passed.

08FebSuperflux press

CASCADE INQUIRY: Exploring hopeful climate futures

Join King's Culture for a generative discussion introducing CASCADE INQUIRY, a new initiative by Superflux that imagines climate-positive futures.

Please note: this event has passed.

25Jandeliberate2

Deliberation for all; what technologies and future thinking might we need to make deliberation more embedded in our societies?

This seminar series, aimed at exploring the expanding world of deliberative research, features guest speakers providing unique insights into the understanding...

Please note: this event has passed.