Role
Sarah Smith is a research fellow for the Centre for People, Work and Organisational Practice.
Career overview
Sarah is a qualitative researcher with expertise in research design, implementation, and analysis. She has worked on a wide range of projects including a study into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the voluntary sector; a rapid evidence assessment seafarer wellbeing; and a evaluation of the DEI Data Standard.
Additionally, Sarah co-convenes a network to support researchers within the school.
Research areas
Sarah is interested in qualitative research methodologies, open research, and the ethical questions which emerge from relationships between the two.
Sarah’s PhD thesis explored young people’s friendships in a new urban settlement.
Publications
Smith, S., & Kraftl, P. (2024). Growing up, moving out, going on: Im/mobilities and youth transitions in the un/making of friendships. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(10), 1650–1669. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2356818
Smith, S., Coule, T. M., & King, D. (2022). Paying the price of ‘doing good’ in the face of crisis. In . J. Rees,. R. Macmillan,. C. Dayson,. C. Damm, & C. Bynner (Eds.), Covid-19 and the voluntary and community sector in the UK: responses, impacts and adaptation (61–74). Policy Press
Brown, S. D., Dahill, D., Baczor, L., King, D., Smith, S., & Mainard-Sardon, J. (2022). Seafarers' psychological wellbeing: a rapid evidence assessment. Nottingham: Lloyds' Register Foundation.
King, D, Chan, O, Coule, T, Dahill, D, Mainard-Sardon, J, Martin, A, Rossiter, W, Smith, S, Stuart, J, Vahidi, G and Ibokessien, N (2022), Respond, Recover, Reset: Two Years On, Nottingham Trent University, Centre for People, Work and Organisational Practice. Access online.
Smith, S., Stuart, J., King, D., Logue, C., Rossiter, W., & Vahidi, G. (2021). Evaluation of the DCMS 50+ volunteering programme: final report. September 2021. Nottingham: Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport. Access online.
Lawley, S., & Smith, S. (2017). Review of LGBT+ sport and physical activity infrastructure. Sport England. Access online.
Smith, Sarah Elizabeth (2014). “My friends probably see the friendship of the group as a community”: Exploring young people’s experiences of friendship and community in a newly constructed settlement. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://hdl.handle.net/2381/37179.