Profile
Sarah joined Geography and Environment at Loughborough University in 2018 as the Analytical Laboratory Technician. Following a six-month secondment in the post, she became the Laboratory Manager in 2022 and then Technical and Scientific Services Manager in 2024. Her role is to manage and maintain the research and teaching laboratories across a broad range of geographical disciplines (e.g. chemical and physical, microscopy, river science, geochronology and meteorology) whilst ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and standards.
Before starting at Loughborough (2016-2017), she worked at the University of Nottingham as a teaching fellow in Environmental Science, where she taught modules such as Soil Science, Environment and Society, Environmental Modelling and Research Skills whilst supervising undergraduates’ research projects. Prior to teaching, she worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Biosciences (University of Nottingham) on an EPSRC project addressing rural hybrid energy systems (2012-2016). Her work package focused on characterising wastes and residues generated by anaerobic digestion and gasification as a function of waste streams and conditions, assessing the long-term application to soil and establishing novel by-products through field and laboratory work in both the UK and India. She also has research experience in dung ecology (2009-2012), when she monitored farm and regional scale effects of Anthelmintics use on farmland ecology within the UK.
In 2010, she completed her PhD at The University of Nottingham entitled “Quantifying the effect of microbial diversity and plant roots on soil structural development”.