Sarah Donnelly is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin and Chairperson of UCD’s Ageing Network. Before this, Sarah worked as a senior medical social worker at Tallaght University Hospital for 15 years in a variety of clinical areas including Age-Related Healthcare and Neurology. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where she completed her Batchelor of Social Work and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
Sarah has sat on a number of national policy advisory boards. She has acted as co-convenor of the European Network for Gerontological Social Work 2018-2023 and is an Academic Advisor on adult safeguarding to the Irish Association of Social Workers. Sarah’s research interests include ageing, dementia, human rights, capacity and decision-making, carer harm, adult safeguarding and homecare robotics.
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