As a permanent Home Study Tutor for four Athabasca University Philosophy courses, Dr. Susan M. Turner gets to go to work in her jammies. She also works, properly dressed of course, as a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria in the Department of Philosophy and in the Faculties of Engineering and Education. She facilitates a Philosophy Club for Seniors on an ongoing basis and her second book, Something to Cry About: An Argument Against Corporal Punishment of Children in Canada from Wilfred Laurier University Press was published in February 2002.

Dr. Turner guest lectures in the area of business and professional ethics both on campus and in the community and is chair of the Canadian Philosophical Association's Philosophy in the School Project. She is a regular volunteer with the Victoria Single Parents Resource Centre, bikes everywhere, and has three grown children each of whom thinks he or she is her favourite. Everyone in the family is vegetarian.