Sarah Campbell
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Campbell teaches across the Social Care and Social Work department leading a number of modules, including Critical Perspectives on Adults – exploring ageing and disability through adulthood.
She is a social scientist and qualitative researcher working for more than twenty years in a research capacity within and outside of academia. Her main research interests lie in the development of creative, participatory and innovative methods to explore lived experiences of ageing and in relation to living with dementia. She is the Co-Lead of the Social Aspects of Ageing Research cluster. She is the Older Co-Creator’s Co-Ordinator for the COST Action knowledge exchange project – PAAR-net which is an international network focussed on participatory approaches to research. She is on the editorial board of Dementia: International Journal of Social Research and Practice.
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Healthy Ageing Expertise
Dr Campbell explores the lived experience of dementia, often using creative and participatory methods. She is interested in neighbourhood, home and place, care homes, everyday experiences of care, and gendered experiences.
Her other research interests are around older women and work. Her current research, ‘Uncertain Futures’ has been exploring inequalities experienced by women over 50 in Manchester in relation to work. The work explores the challenges of accessing work as an older worker and experiences of exiting work and retirement. The project is examines intersectional experiences of discrimination, structural discrimination, pension inequality and poverty.
Relevant Projects
- Uncertain Futures: Exploring Inequalities for Women over 50 in relation to Paid and Unpaid Work
- A Moment’s-based approach to Dementia Care using creative methodologies
- COST Action: PAAR (CA22167)
- ESRC/NIHR Neighbourhoods and Dementia study within work package 4: Neighbourhoods: Our People, Our Places study
- ESRC Hairdressing, image and bodywork in care services to older people
- NIHR SDO The transition from cognitive impairment to dementia: older people’s experiences
