SARAH HAYES

Sarah is Professor of Education and Research Lead in the School of Education at Bath Spa University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). With a PhD in Sociology, her research into Digital Society and Education intersects across Sociology, Technology, Education and Linguistics, Sarah is the author of two monographs published by Brill – The Labour of Words in Higher Education (2019) and Postdigital Positionality (2021). She has co-edited the Springer books Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) and Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community: Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion (2023). Sarah is also an Associate Editor of the Springer Journal Postdigital Science and Education. She recently led two projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: Data and disadvantage: taking a regional approach towards Human Data Interaction (HDI) to inform local and national digital skills policies (2020-2021) Extending Human Data Interaction (HDI) theory in partnership with the cross-sector community and international interdisciplinary researchers’ (2021-2022) Sarah was also a partner in the Digitalising Mobility and International Networks with Open Education (DIONE) project funded by Erasmus+. Sarah has recently worked on collaborative projects linked to citizen research and civic universities. Sarah has edited several Special Issues and published many peer-reviewed articles, books and chapters. See: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ShWZAe8AAAAJ&hl=en Sarah has supervised both PhD and EdD students to completion, and examined doctorates and chaired vivas. Sarah has also taught and led research activities internationally in Italy, Vietnam, Muscat, Singapore, India, Ghana, China and South Africa.