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. She was previously a professor at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

Crowther obtained a Bachelor of Science with honours from King's College London, followed by a Master of Science degree at the University of Surrey. ^[1] Crowther has worked in healthcare since 1982, and moved into midwifery in the 1990s.^[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. Her doctoral research was supervised by Elizabeth Smythe and Deborah Spence.^[4] Crowther then joined the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. She is also a full professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, giving her inaugural professorial lecture in June 2018.^[5][1]

Crowther has published two books on the birthing process and is an editor for four peer-reviewed journals.^[5] She has participated in national working groups in the UK aimed at developing standards for midwifery education.^[5] Crowther is a member of the International Confederation of Midwives Research Standing Committee.^[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.^[1][2]

Scholia has a profile for Susan Crowther (Q64006434).

• Davies, Lorna; Crowther, Susan, eds. (16 November 2022). Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003165200. ISBN 978-1-003-16520-0.
• Crowther, Susan; Thomson, Gill, eds. (29 June 2022). Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Health and Social Care Research. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003081661. ISBN 978-1-003-08166-1.
• Alison McFadden; Anna Gavine; Mary J Renfrew; et al. (28 February 2017). "Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2: CD001141. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001141.PUB5. ISSN 1469-493X. PMC 6464485. PMID 28244064. Wikidata Q30235532.
• Susan Crowther; Pam Ironside; Deb Spence; Liz Smythe (26 June 2016). "Crafting Stories in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: A Methodological Device". Qualitative Health Research. 27 (6): 826–835. doi:10.1177/1049732316656161. ISSN 1049-7323. PMID 27354387. Wikidata Q39647070.
• Susan Crowther; Jennifer Hall (29 January 2015). "Spirituality and spiritual care in and around childbirth". Women and Birth. 28 (2): 173–178. doi:10.1016/J.WOMBI.2015.01.001. ISSN 1871-5192. PMID 25639662. Wikidata Q48051169.
• Susan Crowther; Billie Hunter; Judith McAra-Couper; Lucie Warren; Andrea Gilkison; Marion Hunter; Anna Fielder; Mavis Kirkham (8 June 2016). "Sustainability and resilience in midwifery: A discussion paper". Midwifery. 40: 40–48. doi:10.1016/J.MIDW.2016.06.005. ISSN 0266-6138. PMID 27428097. Wikidata Q38900544.
• Susan Crowther; Liz Smythe; Deb Spence (16 March 2013). "Mood and birth experience". Women and Birth. 27 (1): 21–25. doi:10.1016/J.WOMBI.2013.02.004. ISSN 1871-5192. PMID 23507333. Wikidata Q45021412.
• Susan Crowther; Elizabeth Smythe; Deb Spence (27 January 2014). "The joy at birth: an interpretive hermeneutic literature review". Midwifery. 30 (4): e157-65. doi:10.1016/J.MIDW.2014.01.004. ISSN 0266-6138. PMID 24529923. Wikidata Q38188244.

• Susan Crowther KEYNOTE at Virtual Midwives, May 2020, via YouTube