Susannah McGowan previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL Arena Centre for Research-Based Education and Assistant Director for Curriculum Design at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. She has authored articles on threshold concepts in history, faculty development, and student as partners work. She is an active member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) and the POD (Professional and Organization Development) network.