Probing the Interplay between AGN Outflows and their Host Galaxies: - Optical Integral Field Unit and Radio Imaging

It is well-known that accreting supermassive black holes impact star-formation processes in their host galaxies in a significant way, perhaps contributing to the well-known but poorly understood scaling relationships of supermassive black holes. In this context we have undertaken a spectroscopic imaging survey and follow-up radio observations of a large sample of nearby active galaxies in order to investigate connections between their nuclear properties and the extended emission-line regions, star-formation regions and radio structures. We will present some results from the optical (WiFeS IFU on the Siding Spring 2.3m) and radio imaging from this investigation. The results place important constraints on models of the interplay between AGN outflows and their host galaxies, especially during the earlier phases of cosmic galaxy evolution, when stellar mass assembly and black hole growth both peak.