Dr Sarah Redshaw has developed and conducted research projects for over 18 years, including as an ARC postdoctoral research fellow with the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney on the ARC Linkage Transforming Drivers project, senior researcher at the Kids Research Institute, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and research fellow in sociology at Macquarie University. She also worked as a social researcher community connections and resilience research with Dr Valerie Ingham at Charles Sturt University and in Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published a number of papers and a book, In the Company of Cars: Driving as a Social and Cultural Practice (Ashgate, 2008), from her studies on the social and cultural aspects of young people’s engagement with cars, and on a number of health-related projects including Community Connections, B SAFE, Bereavement Support in Community Nursing, Heartbeads, and Measuring the Outcomes of Case Managed Community Care. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Charles Sturt University working with academics across a range of projects.

• Community resilience and community organisations
• Social capital and support networks – bonding, bridging and linking capital
• Mobiltiies and cultural practices
• Qualitative research
• Relational sociology