Dr Sara Long

(she/her)

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Research

Having completed my PhD around a decade ago, I have obtained competitive research funding to the value of over £6 million (£6,125,027), of which I have served as principal investigator (PI) on studies to the combined value of around £2.2million. I have served as co-investigator or PI on multidisciplinary projects, including a project funded by Wellcome Trust looking at use and uptake of mental health data for service planning in secondary schools. Funding sources include the UKRI, BBSRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, HCRW, NIHR, Public Health Wales, and Welsh Government, as well small awards from a private sector company and others from the South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner. Please see my CV for a full list of awarded funding. Over time, I have increased capacity from co-investigator to principal investigator, with my level of funding increasing. I work with a range of teams and disciplines, mentoring and supporting others through my role. Please see below for selected funded research projects.

Funded

1. 1.     Apr 2025-Mar 2028 Long SJ (PI), Morgan Kel (co-PI), Embling R, Murphy S, Hawkins J, Morgan Kev, Spence S, McKendrick J, Woodside J, Jayne L, Gregory J. Reducing Inequalities in School food Environments (RISE): Supporting provision, uptake and consumption of Free School Meals UKRI £1,600,000

   2.     Apr 2025- Mar 2030. Moore, G. Evans, R., Hawkins, J., Young, H, Long S. (co-I) et al. DECIPHer Centre Sustainability Funding. Health and Care Research Wales. £2,800,000.

   3.     Sep 2023-Jun 2024 Segrott, J (co-PI), Page, N (co-PI), Reed, H (co-PI), Long S, Rice, F, Shenderovich, Y, Eyre, O, Bevan-Jones, R, Murphy, S, Boffey, M, Ogada, E. Wellcome Trust Mental Health Data Prize Sustainability Phase - Piloting and Sustainability for a Digital Dashboard for Secondary Schools to access and understand their Student Health Data. Wellcome Trust Mental Health Data Prize (Phase 3): £140,000

   4.     Jan 2024-Jun 2025: £15,000, Public Health Wales. Long SJ (PI), Brown R, Reed H, Page N, Moore G, Murphy S. Development of a training package to support Healthy Schools Co-ordinators (HSCs) to support schools around the use of data and evidence.

   5.     Oct 2019-Dec 2023: £315, 999, Health and Care Research Wales Health Fellowship Scheme. Long SJ (PI), Moore G. The role of schools in improving health, well-being, and reducing inequalities: a mixed-methods investigation of curriculum reform in Wales.

   6.     Jan 2023-Jun 2023: £10,004, Public Health Wales. Long SJ (PI). Development of a training package to support Healthy Schools Co-ordinators (HSCs) to support schools around the use of data and evidence.

   7.     Jan 2023-Jul 2023: £29,749 Public Health Wales. Hawkins J (PI), Long SJ, Morgan K. Healthy Working Wales Evaluation toolkit – the developing of a national benchmarking tool.

   8.     Nov 2022-Aug 2023: £34,450, Welsh Government. Long SJ (PI), Young H, Churm A. Peer-on-peer abuse (POPA) in Wales colleges across Wales: Awareness and confidence in reporting procedures, and management of POPA by colleges and college staff.

   9.     Oct 2019-Jul 2022: £192,230, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Long SJ (PI), Farewell D, Fone DF, Lyons R, Moore G, Scourfield J, Taylor C. Does local authority care make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children? Longitudinal analyses of a retrospective electronic cohort.

   10.   2020-2023: £600,000, NIHR Public Health Research, Howarth E, Moore GF, (mentor to first-time PI), Feder G, Spencer A, Evans R., Berry V, Stanley N, Bacchus L, Humphrey A, Buckley K, Littlecott H, Long S, Burn A. Family Recovery after Domestic Abuse (FReDA): A feasibility trial and nested process evaluation of a group-based intervention for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse.

   11.   Feb 2018-Feb 2019: £85, 777, Social Care Wales (SCW). Williams A, Evans RE, Long SJ, Elliot M, Young H. Understanding outcomes for Welsh children who are placed in secure accommodation.

   12.   Dec 2017: £2,100, International Credit Mobility Programme: Erasmus Plus. Long, SJ (PI). Travel grant to strengthen links and promote research collaborations with universities abroad.

   13.   Oct 2017-Jan 2021: £70,000, ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentship Award. Moore GF (PI), Long SJ, Murphy S.

   14.   Jul 2017-Apr 2018: £23,000, The Thrive Approach. Long SJ (PI), Evans R, Moore G (co-PIs). An evaluation of the impact of a primary school-based socio-emotional intervention on education outcomes at key stage 2.

   15.   May-Nov 2017: £49,718, Welsh Local Government Association. Morgan K, Moore GF (co-PIs) Hawkins J, Littlecott H, Long SJ. and McConnon, L. An evaluability assessment of the Food & Fitness Summer Holiday Enrichment Programme in Wales.

   16.   Jun 2017: Long SJ (PI) £2,000 School of Social Sciences international conference fund. Travel grant to present work at the International Society for Child Indicators Conference.

   17.   Jan-Jun 2016: £20,000, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioners’ Office. Long SJ (PI), Ashton KA, Bellis M, Gray B. Exploring the impact of transportation on public safety and health, social and well-being outcomes among users of the night-time economy (NTE).

   18.   Oct 2014-Mar 2016: £135,000 South Wales Police and Crime Commissioners’ Office. , Bellis M (PI), Long SJ, Barton E. Development of a multi-agency routine surveillance and analysis system to develop understanding, intervention and prevention of violence in Wales.

Teaching

Contributions to teaching:

>Child and Youth Policy, School of Social Sciences (SOCSI), Cardiff University.

>Undergraduate Social Sciences and Research Methods, SOCSI, Cardiff University

>Masters of Public Health (MPH), MEDIC, Cardiff University

>Masters of Social Work (MASW), SOCSI, Cardiff University

>Undergraduate Psychology, Swansea University

2014/present – supervision of undergraduate and MSc students; experience of marking undergraduate and MSc projects