Dr. Sue L. T. McGregor is a professional home economist (50+ years) with extensive background in home economics (philosophy, leadership, and education); policy analysis and development; research education and methodologies; consumer studies, policy, and education; and transdisciplinarity. While practicing for 30 years as a Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU, Halifax NS Canada) (retiring in 2014 as Professor Emerita), she concurrently undertook policy work as the Principal Consultant for MCG. She remains an active independent scholar, researcher, and analyst.

Dr. McGregor was a member of the Home Economics/Human Ecology Department for 15 years (until it was closed down). While an early member of the Department of Education, she was concurrently Coordinator of the undergraduate, interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies program for eight years. She was Director of Graduate Education in the renamed Faculty of Education for three years and then spearheaded the development of a tri-university doctoral program. She was the inaugural, elected MSVU Doctoral Program Coordinator in Educational Studies as well as the elected Chair of the Inter-University Doctoral Administration Committee (20 months, 2010–2011).

Dr. McGregor has national and international exposure and recognition including Docent in Home Economics at the University of Helsinki (a lifetime appointment in recognition of her international home economics reputation). She has delivered over 50 home economics-related keynotes and invited talks in 20 countries and is one of the first 10 people to receive International Professional Home Economist (IPHE) certification from the International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE). She is also now registered as a Professional Home Economist (PHEc) at the Ontario Home Economics Association. She is still actively involved in 21 professional associations.

She is recipient of Kappa Omicron Nu’s (KON) Marjorie M. Brown Distinguished Professor Award (home economics leadership). In 2015, she became a Karpatkin International Consumer Fellow, and she received the 2009 TOPACE International Award (Berlin) for distinguished international consumer scholar and educator. She is currently part of the International Project: Formation of a Systems Transdisciplinarity Worldview in Education (2023–2026) (Russia School of Transdisciplinarity, and the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research [CIRET], France).

Dr. McGregor regularly publishes monographs on home economics and consumer studies at her professional website (19 to date). More significantly, she has 200+ peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, 36 book chapters (half refereed), and she has published seven books including The Thinking Professional (Emerald, 2025), Learning to Teach (2024, IAP/Emerald), and Understanding and Evaluating Research (SAGE, 2018). With Donna Pendergast (Australia) and Kaija Turkki (Finland), she co-edited The Next 100 years: Creating Home Economics Futures (Australian Academic Press, 2012). She co-authored Transversity: Transdisciplinarity Approaches in Higher Education (Integral Publishing, 2011) and published Consumer Moral Leadership (2010, De Gruyter Brill/Sense) and Transformative Practice (2006, KON).

Dr. McGregor is currently affiliated with seven professional home economics journals (previously with 31). She is a Coordinating (Associate) Editor of the IFHE International Journal of Home Economics and was Interim Editor of both the 115-year-old American Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences for 1.5 years (only Canadian to hold this honour) and the International Journal of Consumer Studies (one year). She guest edited a special issue of the Korean Journal of Home Economics Education and Research (2022) and KON FORUM (home economics philosophy, 2012–2019). She was a Co-Editor of Integral Leadership Review and the Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering and Science.