Suzanne Hopf

Speech Pathology3806262

Associate Professor Suzanne Hopf

BAppSc (Speech Pathology)Hons, Cert TESOL, AdCert TEYL, GradCertLTHE, PhD

Course Director (Speech Pathology) / Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology
Remote work site: Nadi, Fiji

Suzanne is Course Director (Speech Pathology) and Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology. Suzanne leads the hybrid delivered Master of Speech Pathology course at Charles Sturt University. An Australian-Fijian citizen based in Fiji, Suzanne’s publications and presentations describe how the contextually unique barriers and facilitators for supporting people with communication disability are created and reinforced by individual, community, and societal factors. A/Prof. Hopf’s Communication Capacity Research and Culturally Responsive Teamwork frameworks provide starting points for developing evidence-informed and culturally responsive communication specialist services in unserved and underserved areas of the world.

Suzanne leads the MSpeechPath curriculum development and has taught across all speech-language pathology range of practice areas with an interest in developing students' research, interprofessional practice, and clinical reasoning skills. Suzanne's teaching is student-centered and she creates learning spaces that maximise learner-teacher-content engagement. Suzanne’s student research supervision (PhD and Honours) has resulted in on-time completion and strong student publication records upon graduation.

Suzanne is passionate about culturally responsive speech pathology practice and achieving equity in service provision for people with disability internationally. Suzanne's research seeks to better understand how barriers and facilitators for development of services for people with communication disability are created and reinforced by individual, community, and societal factors. Suzanne is committed to being a part of an international network of research practitioners who celebrate individual diversity and believe in sharing knowledge and resources for the greater benefit of all mankind.

View Suzanne's research outputs