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Dr. Sarah Parker

Research Fellow (Public Health & Primary Care)

 saparker@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr Sarah Parker is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). With extensive experience leading qualitive and mixed methods research initiatives and teams, she is passionate about tackling complex social problems through direct policy- and service-level impact. Her research covers a broad spectrum of policy issues including those related to health, homelessness and social care systems. She currently works on the HRB-funded Foundations project, researching how COVID-19 has impacted on health system and policy reform, and is also part of the multidisciplinary team to receive Government funding to undertake the first national study of care-leavers in Ireland. As part of her current role, Sarah supervises at undergraduate (BA) and postgraduate (M.Sc. and PhD) level. She leads on the Research Methods and Dissertation module on the M.Sc. in Health Policy and Management (2023-present), lectures on the SPHeRE PhD programe (2022-present) and is Deputy Editor of the School of Medicine Newsletter, The Pulse (2024-present). She also lectured on the Introduction to Health Policy module as part of the BA in Social Studies, School of Social Work and Social Policy (2021-2023). She was recently appointed to the Postdoctoral Academy Committee in TCD (2024-present) and is also an Invited Member of the Focus Ireland Research Sub-Committee (2024-present) Prior to this, Sarah was a researcher at the Children's Research Centre, TCD, where she worked on several commissioned projects including a biographical study of women's homelessness and a qualitative longitudinal study of homeless youth and their families. Sarah holds several degrees from TCD including a PhD in Social Policy (2021), M.Sc. in Applied Social Research (2011) and BA in Sociology and Social Policy (2006). Funded by the Irish Research Council, she led an award-winning mixed methods study on the dynamics of family homelessness in Ireland as part of her doctorate. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, reports and book chapters, achieving a h-index of 11 and 469 citations (Google Scholar). Her most recent collaborative work has been published in edited collections by Routledge, Edward Elgar (forthcoming) and Palgrave MacMillan as well as high-impact journals including The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Housing Studies, International Journal on Homelessness, Child & Family Social Work, Journal of Family Issues, European Journal of Homelessness, HRB - Open, Frontiers in Public Healt, BMC Public Health and BMC Health Services Research.

Representations

Details Date
Appointed Member, Postdoctoral Academy Committee, Trinity College Dublin 2024
Invited Member, Focus Ireland Research Sub-Committee 2024
Member, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) 2017
Member, Trinity Research in Childhood Centre 2017
Associate Member, Women's Homelessness in Europe Network 2017
Luisne Mac Conghail, Sarah Parker, Sara Burke, Examining universal access to acute hospital care in Ireland during the first three months of COVID-19: Lessons from the policy process, HRB - Open, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Rikke Siersbaek, Paul Kavanagh, John Ford, Sara Burke, Sarah Parker, How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review, BMC Public Health, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Sarah Parker, Rikke Siersbaek, Luisne Mac Conghail, Sara Burke, Public Health Responses to Homelessness During COVID-19 in Ireland: Implications for Health Reform, International Journal on Homelessness, 3, (3), 2023, p36-52 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Sarah Parker, Luisne Mac Conghail, Rikke Siersbaek, Sara Burke, How to not revert to type: Complexity-informed learnings from the pandemic response for health system reform and universal access to integrated care, Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Ellen Cosgrave, Aishling Sheridan, Edward Murphy, Martina Blake, Rikke Siersbaek, Sarah Parker, Sara Burke, Frank Doyle, Paul Kavanagh, Public attitudes to implementing financial incentives in stopsmoking services in Ireland, Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 9, (9), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Rikke Siersbaek, Sarah Parker, Paul M Kavanagh, John Ford, Sara Burke, How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review protocol, BMJ Open., 12, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne, Sarah Parker, Sara Burke, Tracking aspects of healthcare activity during the first nine months of COVID-19 in Ireland: a secondary analysis of publicly available data, HRB - Open, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Young people narrating the meaning of homelessness and home. in, editor(s)L. Moran, K. Reilly, & B. Brady , Narrating childhood with children and young people: Diverse contexts, methods and stories of everyday live, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, pp35 - 61, [Mayock, P. & Parker, S.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Burke, Sara; Parker, Sarah; Fleming, Padraic; Barry, Sarah, Thomas, Steve, Building health system resilience through policy development in response to COVID-19 in Ireland: From shock to reform, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 10, (100223), 2021, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100223], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Mayock, P., Parker, S. & Murphy, A, Family 'turning point' experiences and the process of youth becoming homeless, Child and Family Social Work, 2021, p10.1111/cfs.12823 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Paula Mayock, Sarah Parker, Living in Limbo: Homeless Young People's Paths to Housing, Dublin, 2017, Book, PUBLISHED
Paula Mayock, Sarah Parker, Andrew Murphy, Young People, Homelessness and Housing Exclusion, 2014, Book, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Winner of 1st place Dean of Research Award at the Multidisciplinary Research Showcase 2018
Government of Ireland Costed Extension (Principal Investigator) 2020-2021
COST grant to complete Short Term Scientific Mission 2018
Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (Principal Investigator) 2017-2021
1252 Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Principal Investigator) 2017-2017