Susan Crowther is a British–New Zealand academic midwife, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in midwifery, birthing experiences and employing an hermeneutic phenomenology approach.
[2][3] Moving to New Zealand, Crowther worked as a rural midwife, and then completed a PhD titled Sacred joy at birth: a hermeneutic phenomenology study at the Auckland University of Technology in 2013.
She is also a full professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, giving her inaugural professorial lecture in June 2018.
[5] She has participated in national working groups in the UK aimed at developing standards for midwifery education.
[5] Crowther's research interests focus on childbirth, rural maternity services, sustainable practice, continuity of care, and include cultural and spiritual wellbeing and hermeneutic phenomenology.