Sarah is a nurse academic and researcher with over 20 years experience in higher education. Qualified as a Registered General Nurse, a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse, and a Registered Nurse Teacher, clinically her background is in children’s nursing where she worked in a range of hospital and community settings, within which she particularly enjoyed working with families at home. She is passionate about the need to understand the child and family’s experience of health, illness and care as the basis for the development of service improvements in collaboration with service users. Sarah’s belief in the power and importance of collaboration is reflected in her work running a parent panel for the ASK SNIFF research programme since the beginning of the first project.