Dr Sarah Bates Evoy is an experienced and qualified Social Care Worker, Adult Guidance Counsellor and Further Education teacher.  She has extensive experience working with individuals and groups considered disadvantaged or hard to engage, including all male groups and individuals with experience of homelessness, addiction and prison. 

Sarah currently works as a Higher Education (HE) lecturer and researcher within the Faculty of Education and Lifelong Learning in South East Technology University, Ireland.  

Sarah’s current research interests include the training of Further Education and Training (FET) practitioners, the identities formed by FET practitioners, and the creation of accessible learning spaces for FET learners and HE students.