Susan Ashley is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Management at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her current research projects study how immigrants and minority groups self-represent through museums, exhibitionary media and memorials. Dr. Ashley's research has been published in books by Routledge and Ashgate, and in peer-reviewed journals such as Organization, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Museum & Society and International Journal of Heritage Studies. She edited the book Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture in 2013. Dr. Ashley holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York University, Toronto. She also has 20 years of consultancy and government work coordinating projects for culture and heritage sites across Canada.