Academic biography

Sabrina is Co-Director of CREATE—The Centre for Collaborative Research Across Teacher Education—and an Assistant Professor of Education in the School of Policy and Practice at IOE, DCU.

Brief Biography: Sabrina is a qualified post-primary teacher (English and Religious Education) who taught for several years before moving into Initial Teacher Education.

Sabrina is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She leads several Education Theory modules on the Bachelor of Religious Education and English / History / Music programme (BRelEd) and the Bachelor of Education in Gaeilge and French/German/Spanish (BEdLan). She has a particular interest in challenge based learning (cbl) pedagogy and ways to support students to bridge the theory-practice divide. 

While she has engaged in research across a range of ITE topics, Sabrina is most keenly interested in educators' occupational wellbeing. For example, Sabrina's recent research explored wellbeing, burnout and rustout in HEI-based Teacher Educators in Ireland and the United Kingdom. 

Through DCU CREATE, Sabrina is also currently engaged in collaborative research with colleagues on the mental health and wellbeing of teachers across the primary and post-primary sectors in Ireland and the UK. 

Sabrina recently completed an MSc in Applied Psychology at Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, Scotland) and is a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).