Rate My Professor Suzanne Hopf

Hopf’s research investigates barriers and facilitators to services for individuals with communication and swallowing disabilities, shaped by individual, community, and societal factors. She authored the Communication Capacity Research and Culturally Responsive Teamwork frameworks to support specialist services worldwide. Notable publications include “The experiences of speech-language pathologists when collaborating with spoken language interpreters, multilingual families, and their children with hearing loss” (2026, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology), “Advancing the sustainable development goals by listening to children’s voices across the globe” (2025, Child Language Teaching and Therapy), “Fijian school students’ Fiji English speech sound acquisition” (2022), and “Effect of dialect on identification and severity of speech sound disorder in Fijian children” (2022). She contributes to the Children’s Voices Centre, supervises PhD and Honours students to completion, and fosters interprofessional collaboration. Hopf has earned the 2021 Executive Dean’s Teaching Award for Successful Graduates, 2021 Staff Excellence Award, 2022 Research Excellence Through Partnership Award, and 2023 Excellence Awards for Research and Social Responsibility (Highly Commended), recognizing her impact on diverse student outcomes and international research networks.