Susan Brand is Head of Editing at Edinburgh Napier University. She works with undergraduates and postgraduates including specialist teaching in advanced editing. Susan has over 20 years of international industry experience as an Editor and Edit Consultant. She has lived and worked in the UK, US, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Southeast Asia and was hugely inspired as a storyteller by this international experience. She has taught film editing at numerous universities and film schools around the world including as Visiting Professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has been a frequent guest speaker at industry events in the UK and abroad like the Scottish Documentary Institute, The Grierson Trust, Women in Film and Television and she has run her own 2-day course entitled Storytelling in the Edit funded by Skillset, the UK’s premiere film and television production training body.