Sarah Sivers

Associate Lecturer

Dr Sarah Sivers is an Associate Lecturer teaching on our professional doctorate Child, community and educational psychology (M4) .

Sarah worked with children and young people in mainstream and specialist education provisions (early years, primary and secondary) for 15 years before training as a child, community and educational psychologist at the Tavistock and Portman (2010 – 2013). Since qualifying, Sarah has worked in two local authorities and for a children’s mental health charity.

A key area of professional focus for Sarah is gaining the views of children and young people. For the past four years, Sarah has conducted research projects with colleagues to forefront the views and experiences of children and young people. Sarah has presented at conferences and written journal articles and book chapters sharing her research.

Sarah has a particular interest in developing innovative ways to explore, develop, disseminate and celebrate psychological thinking in education. Sarah is the co-founder of a webinar series which offers a platform for sharing innovative work and ideas; Sarah is also co-facilitator of a special interest group which examines how the Power Threat Meaning Framework (Johnstone & Boyle, 2018) can be applied to education. Sarah’s other professional interests include promoting inclusion and diversity, understanding barriers to school attendance and therapeutic approaches to supporting children and young people.