Susan Hunston (born 1953) is a British linguist. She received her PhD in English under the supervision of Michael Hoey at the University of Birmingham in 1989. She does research in the areas of
corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. She is one of the primary developers of the
Pattern Grammar model of linguistic analysis, which is a way of describing the syntactic environments of individual words, based on studying their occurrences in large sets of authentic examples, i.e. language corpora. The Pattern Grammar model was developed as part of the
COBUILD project, where Hunston worked for several years as a senior grammarian for the
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary.