Dr Sarah Wayland
PhD (Health), BSW (UNSW)
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences
Sarah Wayland has research interests in psychosocial disability and trauma. She has received funding to progress small scale research projects relating to mental health needs of people left behind when someone is missing and the post incarceration health needs of people with blood borne viruses. She is also a Chief Investigator on an NHMRC funded project that uses a facilitated community development approach to better support young Aboriginal women leaving prison. She has been researching in the suicide prevention and postvention space for the last 5 years and is currently progressing projects relating to an evidence check for SAX institute on international suicide prevention data, lived experience of suicide prevention speakers and a service evaluation of the Lifeline Eclipse program for suicide attempters.
As a qualitative researcher, and previously as a mental health clinician, she actively engages consumers in her research and specialises in data collection and analysis of participants from vulnerable and marginalised population groups. Sarah is also a renowned researcher in the space of missing people. She regularly provides comment to mainstream media on the experiences of people left behind when someone is missing and seeks to better support those with mental ill-health who go missing.
Research areas:
- Target groups (CALD, LGBTI, Rural/remote, Lived experience)
- Suicidal behaviour(suicidal ideation, suicidal risk, suicide attempt)
- Mental health, mental ill health
Available for:
- Research opportunities
- Funding
- Innovative approaches to suicide prevention
- Connecting with post-graduate candidates
- Support for discussions about suicide
Notable Research
Providing support following exposure to suicide: views from Australian postvention workers and service provision Health and Social Care in the community
Maple, M, Wayland S, Pearce, T, Hess, N & McKay, K
Accepted for publication March 2019.
Social Work in rural New South Wales, School Settings: addressing inequalities beyond the school gate. Australian Social Work
Maple, M, Wayland S, Pearce, T, Hess, N & McKay, K
Accepted for publication 2019.
Understanding the ups and downs of living well: voices of people experiencing early mental health recovery.
Kendall, S; Redshaw, S; Ward, S; Wayland, S; Sullivan, E
(in press) Health and Justice
Holding on to Hope: A Review of the Literature Exploring Missing Persons, Hope and Ambiguous Loss
Wayland, S, Maple, M & McKay, K.
2015, Death Studies 40(1) July 2015
View at
www.researchgate.net
Please note: this is not a complete list of papers this researcher has contributed to. If the research you are interested in is not listed above, please contact the researcher for more information.
Dr Sarah Wayland
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences