Suzanne C. Hopf is Senior Lecturer and Course Director (Speech Pathology) at Charles Sturt University, Australia. 

Suzanne is Senior Lecturer and Course Director (Speech Pathology) for the blended online Master of Speech Pathology at Charles Sturt University. Suzanne has taught across all speech-language pathology practice areas with an interest in developing students' research, interprofessional collaborative practice, and clinical reasoning skills. Suzanne's teaching is student-centered and she creates learning spaces that maximise learner-teacher-content engagement. She has supervised a number of research students (PhD and 1^st class Honours) students to on-time completion. She creates opportunities to collaborate with her students for publication and conference presentation. Suzanne’s teaching excellence was recognised when the Speech Pathology department won an inaugural 2021 Executive Dean’s Teaching Award for their work “Inspiring, motivating and supporting learning for students from diverse backgrounds through Australia’s first blended online Master of Speech Pathology”. Her leadership within the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research group was recognised with a team 2023 Executive Dean’s Research Award.

Suzanne is passionate about achieving equity in service provision for people with disability internationally. 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 and/or swallowing disability are created and reinforced by individual, community, and societal factors. Dr. Hopf’s Communication Capacity Research and Culturally Responsive Teamwork frameworks provide starting points for developing evidence-informed and culturally responsive communication specialist services in under- and un-served areas of the world. 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.