Susan Hansen is Europe’s most cited street art scholar. She is an interdisciplinary academic with a background in forensic psychology, visual sociology, and art history. Her unique approach to street art, graffiti, and urban contemporary art is grounded in her intersectional expertise. Susan is Head of the Visual and Arts-based Methods Group at Middlesex University, London. She is Editor of Nuart Journal, Co-Editor of Visual Studies and Vice-President of the International Visual Sociology Association.
Susan is committed to engaging and connecting outsider audiences with contemporary urban art and scholarship through open access publications, symposia, and uncommissioned independent public art.