Susan Kelly is a specialist in Anglo-Saxon diplomatic. She studied at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1979 until 1985, and then moved to St Catherine's College, Oxford (Rank Foundation Research Fellow 1985-8; British Academy Research Fellow, 1988-91). She returned to Cambridge for five years (Department of Anglo-Saxon). She was a research fellow at Birmingham University (1996-7, 1998-2012). Since 2015 she has been Senior Research Fellow at the
University of East Anglia.