Apart from her supervision of postgraduate students, she has more than 17 years’ experience in academic staff development. Two main strands of work relate to doctoral education and developing academic writing, on the one hand, and curriculum renewal informed by transformative learning theory, on the other.
Susan is a B-rated researcher with the South African National Research Foundation and a Fellow of the international Association of Medical Educationalists (AMEE). She serves on the editorial boards of the African Journal of Health Professions Education, Medical Education and Advances in Health Sciences Education and has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.