Surya Monro is an expert in the areas of gender, sexuality and variations of sex characteristics – notably LGBT and Intersex issues.

She is the author of several published works including Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism, and Sexual Diversity; Sexuality, Equality and Diversity (co-author); Bisexuality; Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics and DSD: The Need for Change (co-author); Queer in Africa (co-editor) and Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics and DSD/dsd: A Critical Introduction (lead author, forthcoming 2024).

She leads the Intersex: New Interdisciplinary Approaches project (INIA) in collaboration with intersex activists and academics. Her teaching covers topics such as inequalities and social theory, and she has supervised a range of PhD students, in fields spanning sexuality, gender and citizenship.