Dr Susan Carland

Dr Susan Carland is an academic, author, and social commentator. She has a PhD from Monash University’s School of Social Sciences, and is currently a Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow and a Churchill fellow, researching the intersection between gender, Islamophobia, and social cohesion. Her first book, “Fighting Hislam: women, faith and sexism”, was published by Melbourne University Publishing, and she has also published a book with Oxford University Press, and with Brill. Susan has spoken about her research and as an expert commentator to the UN in Geneva, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Q and A, 7:30, Lateline, The Project, The Drum, ABC News Breakfast, Sunrise, and has written for The Guardian, The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Conversation, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Australian Vogue, The Quarterly Essay, as well as numerous in academic publications.

She currently sits on Victorian Government Anti-Racism taskforce, the board of Benevolence Australia, and the advisory board for the Valmae Frielich Project for the Study of Bigotry at the Australian National University. Susan currently hosts the podcast What Happens Next? She is a columnist for Sunday Life in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.