Sarah Morton

Dr Sarah Morton is Director of the Community Partnership Drugs Programme and Assistant Professor in Community Engagement in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, University of Bath. She has extensive experience in policy, practice and outcome evaluation in relation to addressing complex issues including substance use and domestic and sexual violence. Over the previous ten years, she has focussed on the interplay of domestic violence and substance use in families, as well as leading organisation-based and international research and practice development in relation to drugs, alcohol and policy development. In 2020 she was joint recipient of the European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities and Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning for the College of Social Science and Law 2021-2024.  Recent policy development contributions have included; joint author of the Council of Europe Implementing a Gender Approach in Drug Policies (2022) handbook; and a member of the National Oversight Committee for Ireland’s National Drug Strategy (NDS) from 2022 to 2024; and chairing the Strategic Implementation Group on Evidence and Evaluation as part of the NDS implementation.  Her research interests include the intersection of substance use and violence, policy development and creative and participative research methodologies.