Dr. Suzanne Burke

Lecturer of Cultural Studies

Suzanne Burke is a Lecturer of Cultural Studies and Head of Department in the Department of Literary Cultural and Communication Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her research focuses on Caribbean culture, carnival, cultural industries, and creative entrepreneurship as these relate to the development and evaluation of cultural policies and programmes. Dr. Burke has worked on the development of cultural policies regionally and internationally, including; the 2019 National Cultural Policy of Trinidad & Tobago and the first Cultural Mapping Exercise of Trinidad and Tobago for the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism in 2014. Her most recent research examines the efficacy of creative clustering as a strategy for developing the creative economy and fostering innovation within communities of practice in the cultural sector. This research was the focus of her Commonwealth Fellowship Award at City University, London, in 2016.