Dr. Sarah Sheridan

School Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Deaf Studies and the Centre for Language and Communication Studies

Sarah is the School Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Deaf Studies and the Centre for Language and Communication Studies. Her professional background is sign language interpreting and she has always been an advocate for social justice.

Her research focuses on second language learning and topics related to learning anxiety, motivation and wellbeing. She is also interested in workplace wellness for both language teachers and sign language interpreters and currently sits on the Healthy Trinity – Workplace Wellbeing group. She is involved in several teaching and research projects, e.g., the Erasmus + K2 funded INCLUDEED (Social cohesion and INCLUsion: DEveloping the EDucational possibilities of the European Multilingual Heritage through Applied Linguistics) project, which is a multilingual project whose main objective is the integration of immigrant and refugee groups in Europe through one of Europe's main assets: its languages.

Sarah is committed to lifelong learning and has obtained many professional qualifications including a Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness. She is currently attending the Aurora Women in Leadership programme.