Sarah Carr

Sarah is a Senior Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, currently leading on the organisation's personalisation work and advising on the policy at a national level. She recently authored Personalisation: a rough guide. Before SCIE Sarah worked for the National Institute for Social Work, Oxleas NHS Trust and at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health in research and information roles.

Sarah has also had a number of social care jobs including, a residential support worker at a farm hostel for homeless people in Edinburgh, a worker at a rehabilitation project for young women sex workers and an HIV and AIDS awareness trainer in Manchester. She is currently an SPN Executive Committee member and a Member of INVOLVE, the national advisory Group, funded by the Department of Health, which aims to promote and support active public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research.

Sarah is a long-term user of mental health services and has written on her own experiences as well as general mental health practice and policy, LGB welfare and equality issues, service user empowerment and participation.