Biography
Sarah Jay completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick graduating with a BA first class honours in Psychology and Sociology in 2010, then a PhD in Social Psychology in 2015. During her PhD Sarah was a successful awardee of Irish Research Council postgraduate funding. Since then, Sarah has worked as an international postdoctoral research fellow affiliated to the Department of Politics and Public Administration at UL and funded by the Irish Research Council and Marie Curie CoFund on the CAROLINE scheme. During this fellowship Sarah conducted her research while on placement with NGO's in Cape Town South Africa and Gujarat in India. Sarah has also lectured in the School of Education and the Department of Psychology at UL and currently holds a Lecturer Below the Bar post in Psychology.Research Interests
My research focuses on social identity processes, in relation to well-being, education, empowerment, and social justice. My expertise is in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and my priority is applied real-world research, often among marginalized communities. Through NGO partnerships my work has explored the education needs of the Traveler community in Ireland and community empowerment and stigma reduction among poor leprosy affected people in rural Nepal. Similarly, my post as international research fellow enabled me to explore worker education and activist identity change in South Africa and leadership development among self-employed women in India.Publications:
S Jay, A Nightingale, N Bali, S Ryklief, M Adshead (2022). Growing leaders from below: Identity‐based worker education and identity‐leader ability among self‐employed women in India, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/casp.2615
OT Muldoon, S Jay, AT O'Donnell, M Winterburn, AB Moynihan, ..(2022). Health literacy among self‐help leprosy group members reduces stereotype endorsement and stigma‐related harm in rural Nepal Health & Social Care in the Community. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13771
S Jay, M Winterburn, K Jha, AK Sah, R Choudhary, OT Muldoon (2022). A resilience building collaboration: A social identity empowerment approach to trauma management in leprosy-affected communities. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001160
S Jay, M Adshead, S Ryklief (2021). It's a life-changing point for me': critical consciousness, collective empowerment and global awareness as activist identity change in popular education European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-021-00593-7
OT Muldoon, D Bradshaw, S Jay, EL Kinsella, P Maher, R Murphy, ...(2021). Vaccination roll-out: a time to develop and maintain trust in science and health care British Journal of General Practice.
S Jay, M Winterburn, R Choudhary, K Jha, AK Sah, BH O'Connell, ...(2021). From social curse to social cure: A self‐help group community intervention for people affected by leprosy in Nepal. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31 (3), 276-287
S Jay, A Batruch, J Jetten, C McGarty, OT Muldoon (2020). Economic inequality and the rise of far‐right populism: A social psychological analysis.Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 29 (5), 418-428
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 29 (5), 418-428British Journal of General Practice 71 (712), 518-519