Sarah joined the Centre in July 2010. She works as a Research Project Officer, providing research, writing and analytical support to the Executive Director and Deputy Director, as well as other Centre programs and activities.
Prior to joining the Centre, Sarah completed her Masters degree in International Social Development at the University of New South Wales, which included a research project Keeping the Peace Within Cultural Diversity among United Nations Peacekeepers: Challenges, Efforts, and Possibilities. In 2008, she provided research support to the Centre for Refugee Research at the University of New South Wales. From 2005-2007 she worked as a Gender Affairs Officer and later an Assistant Best Practices Officer in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and from 2002-2005 as a Project Associate for the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Peace Women Project in New York, with particular responsibility for gender and peacekeeping issues.
Sarah works for the Centre remotely from Melbourne, based at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law.