Sarah Hamed is a research associate in medical sociology with expertise in various forms of qualitative research and community based research. Sarah's work focuses on social justice and health inequities in various European settings including England and Sweden. She specifically works on uncovering racialisation in healthcare settings and developing antiracism strategies and policies in healthcare. Sarah is a member of the Health Inequalities and Inequities Research Group.

Sarah also works part-time as the Head of Research and Evaluation at Black Thrive Global; a community based organisation working with racial inequities and antiracism in healthcare among Black communities with an emphasis on mental health.

Sarah is currently working as a research associate within the EMBARC project funded by the Swedish Research Council (https://www.du.se/en/research/research-about-health-and-welfare/embarc/). EMBARC is a qualitative project, which looks at uncovering racialisation in maternity care in England and Sweden. The project conducts interviews with racially minoritised women with experience in racism in maternity care as well as staff working in maternity care. Through methods of co-production and mutual learning, the project aims to design antiracism strategies in maternity care.

Sarah has completed her PhD thesis at Uppsala University in 2023, which examined healthcare staff's racialised talk in healthcare (https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1711464&dswid=7554).

Before joining King's, Sarah worked as postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University in Sweden working on a project in Sweden and the UK that looks at the concept of integration through the narratives of those who are considered to be integrated through focusing on people's everyday dilemmas, narratives of belonging, well-being, and pleasure (The Afterlives of Migration: Integration, Ordinary Ethics and Intimate citizenship).

Sarah has also worked with various other projects examining health inequities in various European settings such as The Welfare Bricolage Project (UPWEB) funded by Norface (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/upweb) and the MigHealthCare Project funded by the European Commission.

Sarah's Hamed's publications can be accessed at her Google Scholar's page here.

Teaching

Sarah has previously supervised a master student at the MSc Mental Health Studies. 

Research Groups

Health Inequalities and Inequities Research Group 

Expertise and Public Engagement

Sarah is the Head of Research and Evaluation at Black Thrive Global; a community based organisation working on racial health inequities in mental healthcare. Sarah's work includes working closely with racially minoritised groups through collaboration with grassroots organisations, community assemblies and other community based activities. Sarah was also involved in delivering antiracism training as part of the Culture of Care programme, which is part of NHS England's Quality Transformation Programme. The programme aims to improve the culture of inpatient mental health including a focus on racial justice, trauma and autism informed care.