Adj Prof Susan Gair

position: Research Fellow

department: Social Work & Human Services

Susan Gair is a non-Indigenous Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University. She has more than 25 years of experience in her discipline, including teaching, research, writing and practice. Key areas of her teaching and research and its application to professional practice have included child adoption policy and practice, working respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities, and researching racism and critical empathy. More recently she has studied kinship care and local service delivery to youth at risk of offending. She is a current member of the Committee of Publishing Ethics (COPE).