Dr Susan Fawssett

Susan Fawssett has been a tutor with The Open University for ten years. Her interest in development stems from her doctoral research at the London School of Economics which investigated the West's responses to Tanzanian socialism from the late 1960s through to the 1980s. Since then she has travelled widely in the developing world, has taught International Relations at an American university in London, as well as tutoring on the Open University's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Her interest in HIV AIDS, and in particular Uganda's response to the disease, has emerged from visits to the country to offer dayschools to Ugandan students who are taking Open University courses online.