AHRC Block Grant-funded PhD studentship 2012–15. Suzy O'Hara is an accomplished project manager with over six years experience in the development and delivery of time based, large scale, complex and high profile arts festivals, events and digital arts commissions.

Suzy has worked with many regional and national partners devising, curating and producing new media/digital arts commissions. These include: Pixelware by Andrew Richardson and the Gothic Self Guided Tour App (Durham Book Festival 2011), Wish Planet by Jana Matekjova (Lumiere 2011), Brass: Digital, a new digital programme strand for the Brass: Durham International Festival 2011 that included two digital arts projects; Gala Manoeuvres by Tim Brennan (mobile app to be launched during AV Festival 2012) and the Digital Music Trial, an international light trail of light installations, projections, film works and light boxes exhibited in shop windows across Durham City to support the four key installations for Enlightenment Festival. Suzy has also successfullyproduced The Durham Book Festival 2009 & 2010, the oldest and largest book festival in the North East.

Suzy is currently working as a freelance arts consultant and arts project manager. She is also working with digital artist, poet and creative writer Stevie Ronnie on Brass Book, a new digital commission that explores the concept of the book in the digital age.