Dr Susannah Hopson

Dr Susannah Hopson is the Research and Innovation Development Officer for water@leeds, based at the University of Leeds.

Susannah was Treatied Spaces’s first PDRA (2017-2021), coordinating and developing a range of large-scale funding applications. An alumni of the University, she earned her PhD in History for research into North American Indigenous history and culture. Her research interests include the American West, North American Indigenous treaties, political sovereignty and Indigenous use of space and the environment.