Sue Turnbull is Honorary Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Over the last thirty years, she has written extensively on television and its audiences with particular attention to comedy and the crime drama. Her most recent publications include The Media and Communications in Australia co-edited with Bridget Griffen-Foley (Routledge 2024); Transnational TV Crime: From the Nordic to the Outback with Marion McCutcheon (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), and with Kate Darian-Smith et al, Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (Taylor and Francis, 2025). Sue has been a Chief Investigator on nine ARC grants including most recently a  Linkage Grant looking at the value of the web series to the Australian screen economy. One outcome of this project, the book The Web Series Experiment, co-edited with Steinar Ellingsen and Mark Ryan will be published in June 2026. Over the last thirty years, Sue has also reviewed crime fiction for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age and has been a crime fiction judge for the Ned Kelly Awards, the Davitt Awards and the Danger Awards. She is a Life Member and Ambassador for Sisters in Crime Australia and is currently Chair of the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival.  She reads a lot of crime.