Sarah studied for a MChem (International) at Durham University. She completed a PhD with Dr Paul Lusby at the University of Edinburgh, where she worked on dynamic platinum(II)-based metallosupramolecular architectures.

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Sarah undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester in the groups of Professor Jonathan Clayden and Dr. Simon Webb, working on methods for achieving stereochemical control in synthetic helical oligomers. Subsequently, she undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of York, working in the group of Professor Robin Perutz (FRS) on the energetics of halogen bonds in solution. She moved to the University of Cambridge and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Professor Chris Hunter (FRS) on the quantification of hydrogen bonding to charged species

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In 2018, Sarah was appointed as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Bradford. In 2019, she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and in 2020, she joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. In 2020, Sarah was awarded a Birmingham Fellowship. 

 

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