Biography
Sarah is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. Sarah has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, medical anthropology and public health. She works on the everyday experience of intersectional inequalities within healthcare and social spaces with a focus on gender, racialisation and life transitions such as maternity and midlife.
Sarah has on-going interests in ageing and intimate inequalities, and co-convenes the BSA Sociology of Ageing study group. Her work in this area has explored the intersections of white-normativity and class with femininity, heterosexuality and ageing, and has contributed to sociologies of the family, sexuality and relationships, as well as ageing studies and feminist public health.
Sarah's recent book, Ageing & New Intimacies: gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene, was published by MUP, 2024.
Research
- Reproductive justice
- Health inequalities
- Racism and racialisation
- Life transitions
- Ageing and the lifecourse
- Ethnography and arts-based methods
Sarah works in collaboration with scholars from multiple different disciplines, as well as public health practitioners and policy makers, biomedical professionals and community and activist-based organisations. Current collaborations include the AHRC-funded Reproductive Borders and Bordering Reproduction project, which examines the lived experiences of ethnic minority and migrant women and birthing people, and their barriers in accessing maternal and reproductive healthcare across England.
The interdisciplinary team seeks to provide practical, policy and academic insights into the intersections of medical, legal, and racial discrimination that women face at different points of the reproductive lifecourse, as well as exploring their creative agencies and those of medical professionals in negotiating these structures.
Teaching
Postgraduate
- 7SSHM618 Critical Policy Research
PhD supervision
Sarah is currently supervising the following students:
- Nyingi Banigo
- Lujain Behbehani
Further details
Research
Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.
Research
Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.