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Sue Starfield is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Education. She was the��Director of The Learning Centre at ���������¼� from 2000-2017. Her research and publications cover tertiary academic literacies; doctoral writing, writing for publication, postgraduate pedagogy, English for Specific Purposes, identity in academic writing and access and equity in higher education. She was a recipient of two Australian Research Council grants:��Writing in the academy: The practice-based thesis as an evolving genre (ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010) and a��A cross-national study of the relative impact of an oral component on PhD examination quality, language and practice (ARC Discovery Grant 2011-2014). She supervises students in the areas of academic��literacies,��academic writing, research genres, English for specific purposes, access and equity issues for non-native speakers of English in higher education, students from refugee backgrounds. Sue has an ongoing interest in qualitative research methods and recently co-edited the ��(2019).��, co-authored with Brian Paltridge and Christine Tardy (Oxford University Press 2016) makes the case for ethnographic approaches to the study of academic writing. The second edition of her co-authored book Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors appeared in 2020 (Routledge). She co-guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing: 'Thesis and dissertation writing in a second language: Context, identity, genre' (2019, vol. 43).��Sue and her colleague Brian Paltridge have recently co-authored a book on the evolution of the PhD,����published by Bloomsbury (2024). Her latest publication is the Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (2nd Edition), published by Wiley, which she has co-edited with Christoph Hafner (2025). Sue also edits two book series with Routledge in the field of English for Specific Purposes: ��and��.��To hear Sue talk about her research focus,

Sue is also founding co-editor of the .