Susan is a mid-career researcher whose work focuses on understanding and addressing the impact of complex and intersecting inequalities on disadvantaged children and families. Working in partnership with government, non-government and community organisations, she has contributed to service system and practice improvements across disability, health, child protection and family support sectors. Susan integrates qualitative methodologies with participatory, inclusive and arts-based approaches to enhance research engagement with marginalised groups and facilitate storytelling that is less reliant on verbal communication skills. A decade ago, with colleagues at UNSW, Susan began to incorporate body mapping into her practice through research on planning with people with intellectual disability and complex support needs. Her body mapping research with mothers of children in long-term care allowed for deeper encounters between researchers and participants that surfaced their embodied stories of loss and trauma. Susan is currently using body mapping to explore sense of school belonging with high school students across New South Wales. As part of the growing community of researchers around the world who have embraced its possibilities, Susan has shared lessons about how body mapping can inform positive social changes in the lives of people who are often misunderstood and stigmatised and recentres the body in research through several publications. She was contributing editor on the first edited book on body mapping research, edited by Katherine Boydell.