Suzanne Newcombe is honorary director of Inform (based at King's College London) and a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University (UK). Inform was founded in 1988 to research and provide information on minority religious movements and to act as a bridge between academic research and the needs of the media and general public for information. It also houses one of the largest databases of religious groups and spiritual movements in the world. 

Suzanne studied sociology of religion at London School of Economics under prof. Eileen Barker, founder of Inform, and gained her PhD. in History at Cambridge University. Her research interests lie mostly in the sociology and social history of religion (broadly understood) and extensive specialist knowledge in new and minority religious movements in modern and contemporary Britain, assessing the security threats posed by minority religions, conspiracy theories and associated social movements. Her recent publication, edited with Karen O'Brien-Kop is the Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation (2021). She is particularly interested in the interfaces between religion, health and healing.