Suzanne Hall

Awards

Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017) LSE Teaching Award (2017) 2015-2017, ESRC Future Research Leader''s award 2010, The LSE’s Robert McKenzie prize for outstanding performance in a Ph.D. programme. 1998-1999 , South African Rome Scholar in Architecture, British School in Rome. 1995-1996, The Council of Scientific Development Scholarship, University of Cape Town

Experience Keywords

cities; city-making; discrimination; ethnography; marginalisation; multi-ethnic street economies and spaces; postcolonial knowledge; urban migration; urban multi culture; urbanisation; visual methods

Research Summary

Suzanne is an urbanist, and has practised as an architect in South Africa. She is Director of the Cities Programme in the Department of Sociology and Senior Research Associate at LSE Cities. Her research and teaching interests are foregrounded in everyday expressions of global urbanisation, particularly urban migration in a context of increased mobility and discrimination. She currently focuses on migrant economies and spaces on urban high streets across the UK, and leads an ESRC project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and space of migration in UK cities’. Suzanne engages with ethnography, postcolonial perspectives of city-making, and visual methods, and her work spans from academic publication, to film and web-based outputs for wider public audiences.

Research Countries

Cities of the global north specifically London