Dr Sarah McDonald
Lecturer
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Organisation unit

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences School of Education

Location

Adelaide University

About me

Sarah is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Adelaide University and a member of the Centre for Research in Education & Social Inclusion. Sarah’s research interests are gendered subjectivities, girlhood, social mobility, social barriers, and educational inequalities. She also conducts research in the area of literacies, focusing on gender, literacies and reading. 

 Sarah is currently the president of the South Australian English Teachers Association, where she previously served as vice president and council member and a State Delegate to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. 

Sarah's work has been published in The Conversation and news outlets such as The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail and radio. In the UniSA 2021 Media Highlights report, Sarah was named one of the top spokespersons in the Education Futures academic unit, per the academic unit list. Sarah was awarded first prize in the Research Excellence Category, HDR Candidate, at the UniSA 2021 Research Awards, UniSA Education Futures Staff Excellence Awards: Early Career Researcher Award in 2024 and a Centre for Research in Education and Social Inclusion Emerging Researcher Excellence Award in 2020. 

South Australian English Teachers Association: President  
Australian Association for the Teaching of English: State Delegate for South Australia 
Australian Association for Research in Education: Sociology of Education SIG Leadership Team

Last updated on 20/04/2026 by Sarah McDonald