Sarah Quinn

Her areas of academic and professional interest include reputation, international development, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, management consultancy, communications, strategy and business development.

As a management consultant, Sarah has worked with clients in the public and private sector, across education, petrochemical, central/local government, emergency services, utilities, health and nuclear industries. She is a former director and subject lead in change management, communications, crisis media management and strategy with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Atkins and Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations and Management (AECOM). Having designed and delivered two sales-based training programmes for PwC and Atkins, she implemented the first reputation tracking strategy for British Gas. She was also responsible for managing the global procurement requirements for aid programmes, working with the UK government's Department for International Development and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, along with multiple non-government organisations and governments.

Now studying towards a second PhD in reputation in the international development sector, Sarah is a Vice Chair Trustee, a Cranfield Trust mentor and volunteers with a food bank. Sarah has lived in five countries, written an unpublished young adult novel and is learning Spanish.

Her qualifications include a PhD in Disaster Psychology from Cranfield Universityin 2003, an MA Creative Writing (with Merit) from the University of Kent in 2012 and a BSc International Disaster Engineering and Management from Coventry University in 1999.