Suzanne is a development professional with over 10 years’ experience developing and managing projects and services across health and social care, now working in the technology and innovation space. Suzanne works in a partnership role across Leeds Beckett University and Leeds City Council, managing the Leeds site for two different Horizon2020 projects, both part of the IoT strand of funding from the EU. The ACTIVAGE project innovates around older people self-managing their health and MONICA covers crowd safety and enjoyment at large scale public events. This is as well as managing a pop-up project working to drive both innovation and inclusion through co-design sessions relating to assistive technology.

She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Management from the Open University, achieved Dec 2016 and am working towards an MSc.