Susan Carland was co-creator and panellist on the critically acclaimed Australian national network television program “Salam Café”, a Muslim comedy panel and sketch show. She is a lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, where she is also completing her Doctorate, researching the ways Muslim women fight sexism within their own traditions and communities from a pro-faith perspective.

She is an ambassador for Possible Dreams International, a charity which works with the AIDS orphans of Swaziland, and in 2009 was listed on the "500 Most Influential Muslims in the World", and also named one of the international ‘Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow’ by the UN Alliance of Civilisations. In 2004, she was awarded 'Australian Muslim of the Year'.