Sarah Wayland
{{Short description|Australian social worker and health researcher}}
Sarah Wayland is an Australian social worker and health researcher.{{Cite web |date=2013-01-20 |title=Sarah Wayland |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/sarah-wayland-18783 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}} Her research focuses on the areas of missing persons, ambiguous loss, grief and suicide bereavement.{{Cite news |date=2024-06-29 |title=56,000 people were reported missing in Australia last year. The families of those who haven't come home never stop searching |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-30/families-never-stop-searching-missing-people-unique-grief/103997156 |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-6397 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=orcid.org}}{{Cite web |title=Suicide bereavement – when and how to help |url=https://mannainstitute.au/news/suicide-bereavement-when-and-how-to-help |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Manna Institute |language=en-AU}} She is Professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences at the CQ University, Sydney (Australia) and a Senior Research Fellow for [https://mannainstitute.au/ Manna Institute].{{Cite web |last=England |first=University of New |title=Sarah Wayland |url=https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/health/sarah-wayland |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=www.une.edu.au |language=en-AU}}
Education and career
Wayland worked as a social worker from 1998-2010 in the fields of child protection and victims of crime. In 2005, she received a Churchill Fellowship to study "the international approach to counselling for families of missing persons focusing on the concept of unresolved loss".{{Cite web |title=Sarah Wayland - Churchill Trust |url=https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/sarah-wayland-nsw-2005 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=www.churchilltrust.com.au |language=en-AU}}
She obtained her PhD from the University of New England in 2015, studying hope and ambiguous loss, and was awarded the Chancellors Medal for Doctoral Research.{{Cite journal |last=Wayland |first=Sarah Louise |last2=Maple |first2=Myfanwy |last3=McKay |first3=Kathryn |last4=Glassock |first4=Geoffrey |date=2015 |title="I still hope, but what I hope for now has changed": A narrative inquiry study of hope and ambiguous loss when someone is missing |url=https://rune.une.edu.au/web/handle/1959.11/21711 |journal=Thesis Doctoral |language=en}}
In 2019, she collaborated with the Australian Federal Police [https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/ National Missing Persons Coordination Centre] to publish "Acknowledging the Empty Space", a resource for those supporting people whose loved one is missing.{{Cite web |date=2019-03-04 |title=AFP launch updated framework to support those with a missing loved one |url=https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/about-us/news/media-releases/afp-launch-updated-framework-support-those-missing-loved-one |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=National Missing Persons Coordination Centre |language=en}}
She is a regular contributor to The Conversation, ABC News and Radio, and SBS.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-18 |title=In limbo: the pendulum between hope and grief |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/in-limbo-the-pendulum-between-hope-and-grief/5328952 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=ABC listen |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=2023-07-30 |title=Inside the 'ambiguous loss' felt by families of missing people |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/missing-persons-week-australia-ambiguous-loss/102669764 |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=ABC listen |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |title=Welcome home: Here's why we need to hear from missing persons who return |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/voices/article/welcome-home-heres-why-we-need-to-hear-from-missing-persons-who-return/zouzbfqws |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=SBS Voices |language=en}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Australian social workers
Category:Academic staff of the University of New England (Australia)