Dr Suzanne Egan

Suzanne Egan's principal research interests lie broadly in the deployment of contemporary social theories, to theorise about, and conduct, research on current social issues and concerns. Field-based experience in sexual violence and youth services has enabled her to work with, and understand, both the possibilities and limitations of a range of social theories and concepts, in particular feminist and poststructural theories of gender, power and sexuality.

Suzanne continued working with these ideas in her doctoral work, which involved operationalising Foucault’s concepts of knowledge, and power as methodological strategies to investigate the place of feminism and the deployment of trauma discourses in the field of sexual violence. Her current research extends on this by theory building in relation to the associations between neurobiological understandings and feminist knowledge/practices of sexual violence. This work involves engaging with different bodies of contemporary scholarship including feminist new materialist theories, affect theory, science and technology studies, and sociological work on the neurosciences.

Ewing Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Sydney
Berlin Summer School in the Social Sciences. Linking Theory and Empirical Research

PhD Thesis Award finalist, Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) 

AWGSA event funding award (with Associate Professor Susan Goodwin)
Katherine Ogilvie Memorial Award, Sydney School of Education and Social Work

Postgraduate Scholarship Award, The University of Sydney

Helen Marchant-Pritchard Memorial Award, The University of Sydney 

APRU Doctoral Students Network (Vice Chancellor’s) conference grant 

Book chapters

Journal articles