Sara Jayne Long 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 works across several projects in this area. She has recently concluded a four-year fellowship that adopted a mixed methods approach to explore the aims, objectives and operationalisation of major Wales-wide education reform. Sara has recently completed a term as principal investigator on a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council that will explore the link between adverse childhood experiences and health and education outcomes, and the mediating role of local authority care and social services intervention.
Sara has a background in psychology and public health, and her methodological interests include, but are not limited to, policy evaluation, the use of mixed methods, longitudinal analyses, natural experiments and data linkage.