With over 14 years experience, Sarah brings expertise in social and community driven design, working with communities, clients, stakeholders, designers and end-users to develop a shared understanding of space and place. She has developed engagement strategies and tool kits, to actively engage the community to ensure voices are captured in a meaningful way.

Sarah is currently involved estate regeneration across Blackburn and Calderdale, applying her creativity and knowledge of inclusive design with a focused, well-organised and systematic approach to problem-solving, to breathe new life into these estates including new homes, open space and community buildings under a wider placeshaping strategy. On these projects she has been leading stakeholder and community engagement, acting as facilitator. Ensuring that the development is driven by stakeholders and the community to encourage social interaction and co design through participation and engagement.

Sarah is also actively involved at Manchester School of Architecture and has been teaching and lecturing since 2009. Sarah is passionate about celebrating diversity and difference, and compliments her work in practice through teaching in PRAXXIS, which strives to question what is feminist architecture now and in the future, exploring the inequalities in society and what that may mean for the built environment.