Dr Sara Long

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Health Research Fellowship Scheme (2019 - 2023)

Project title: Integration of health and wellbeing into the school curriculum: a mixed methods investigation of preparations for Wales-wide school reform and it’s impacts on health and well-being

Biography

Sara is an inter-disciplinary researcher interested in health, wellbeing and education outcomes of children and young people. Adopting a range of qualitative and quantitative methods, she leads a range of projects. She recently received funding for a three-year Health and Care Research Wales Health Fellowship that will adopt a mixed methods design (interviews, observations and time-series analysis) to explore the aims, objectives and operationalisation of Wales-wide school reform, and will model impacts on health and wellbeing of learners. 

Sara has also concluded an Economic and Social Research Council funded study explored the link between adverse childhood experiences and health and education outcomes, and the mediating role of local authority care and social services intervention. Her background is psychology and public health, and her methodological interests include, but are not limited to, the use of mixed methods, longitudinal analyses, natural experiments, and data linkage.