Associate Professor Susan Hemer is an anthropologist located in the School of Society and Culture at Adelaide University. Associate Professor Hemer's research interests include emotions, death, grief and mourning; the social, health and gendered impacts of mining and development projects in Melanesia; socio-cultural, gendered, historical and political aspects of access to health care; and health care issues including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, gendered violence and maternal health care in Papua New Guinea. Associate Professor Hemer publishes in medical and psychological anthropology, and development studies. She holds a long-standing interest in the ethics of research, and is currently a member of the University of Adelaide HREC. Her research expertise includes ethnography, interviews, qualitative surveys and archival research. Her book, Tracing the Melanesian Person, was published in 2013. She lectures in the areas of medical and psychological anthropology. She gained her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne. Prior to working at the University of Adelaide, Associate Professor Hemer held a research and project implementation position in the Community Relations Department for Lihir Gold in Papua New Guinea, particularly focusing on health, gender relations and village resettlement.