Susan Gasson
- susan.gasson@jcu.edu.au
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
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Biography
Susan’s research focuses on research education and development, research collaboration, and employability. Adopting qualitative approaches including narrative inquiry her research has benefited from years spent working in higher education and building strong national and global networks. She managed the Research Students Centre at QUT for two decades before joining JCU as Coordinator HDR Advisor Development for five years. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Her most recent research publications have focused on Early Career Research Pathways, and Collaborative Research and its application in different contexts including research writing, doctoral studies, and support for the participation of women in higher education. Her PhD thesis explored Early Career Researcher pathways. She was leading editor on the open access online ebook Confident Supervision: https://jcu.pressbooks.pub/confidentsupervisors/
She has co-authored with collaborators in Europe, North America and the Pacific. Her interest in researcher development has led to the creation and co-creation of several online resources including interactive and integrated forms, online communities, and Blackboard and WordPress sites.
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Research Interests
Collaborative Research, Distributed Leadership and Change, Sustainability of Research Capacity, Researcher Development