Susan Ashley is Associate Professor in the Arts MA programme Creative and Cultural Industries Management. She is a cultural studies scholar interested in the democratisation of public culture, with a focus on heritage and cultural activism by people of Black and minority ethnic descent. Dr Ashley is currently PI for the AHRC project “(Multi)Cultural Organisational Archives” (2020-21), and past AHRC Leadership Fellow for “(Multi)Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives on Public Culture, Identity and Citizenship” (2017-2019).