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Sarah is an applied Sport Psychologist. In her research, she adopts a narrative approach, studying how athletes and sports professionals draw upon culturally available narratives to make sense of their sporting experiences and to construct their sporting (and non-sporting) identities.  In her PhD, Sarah utilised narrative as a way of studying peak experiences and peak performances in sport, analysing how subjective sporting experiences are constructed, understood and shared through cultural story-telling. Post PhD, Sarah has continued to engage with narrative psychology, exploring how narratives shape athlete development and well-being. Her research has focuses upon various transitions in sport, including becoming a student athlete and dealing with sporting mid-life. Most recently, Sarah has been using narrative to understand the positive and negative impact of cultural stories on athletes’ identities and health.  Current research projects are focused upon the use of narrative to explore the alcohol-sport nexus. Sarah has also contributed to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership to design an app to monitor athlete mental health. Sarah is a member of the Optimising Sport Performance research group.

• Exploring the sport-alcohol relationship: A longitudinal qualitative study of student-athlete drinking following the transition out of university, Partington, E., Jankowski, M., Partington, S., Heather, N. 1 Sep 2024, In: Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
• Narratives of adventure, intimacy, conformity, and rejection: Narrative inquiry as a methodological approach to understanding how women student athletes 'do' sport-related drinking, Partington, S., Smith, J., Longstaff, F., Partington, E. 2 Jan 2024, In: Sport, Education and Society
• Retrospective cohort study of the South Tyneside Exercise Referral scheme 2009-2014: Predictors of dropout and barriers to adherence, Kelly, M., Rae, G., Partington, S., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Caplan, N. 1 Dec 2017, In: Journal of Public Health
• Drinking Outcome Expectancies and Normative Perceptions of Students Engaged in University Sport in England, Longstaff, F., Heather, N., Allsop, S., Partington, E., Jankowski, M., Wareham, H., St Clair Gibson, A., Partington, S. Mar 2015, In: Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
• Psychophysiological responses in experienced firefighters undertaking repeated self-contained breathing apparatus tasks, Young, P., St Clair Gibson, A., Partington, E., Partington, S., Wetherell, M. 3 Nov 2014, In: Ergonomics
• Readiness to change drinking behaviour among heavy-drinking university students in England, Longstaff, F., Heather, N., Jankowski, M., Allsop, S., Wareham, H., Partington, S., Partington, E., St Clair Gibson, A. 2014, In: Education and Health
• Stressors and Coping Strategies of UK Firefighters during On-duty Incidents, Young, P., Partington, S., Wetherell, M., St Clair Gibson, A., Partington, E. 2014, In: Stress and Health
• Anxiety, stress and perceived workload during the command and control of computer simulated fire service training environments, Young, P., St Clair Gibson, A., Partington, E., Partington, S., Wetherell, M. 2013, In: International Journal of Emergency Services
• The relationship between membership of a university sports group and drinking behaviour among students at English Universities., Partington, S., Partington, E., Heather, N., Longstaff, F., Allsop, S., Jankowski, M., Wareham, H., Stephens, R., St Clair Gibson, A. 2013, In: Addiction Research & Theory
• Alcohol Use Disorders and Hazardous Drinking among Undergraduates at English Universities, Heather, N., Partington, S., Partington, E., Longstaff, F., Allsop, S., Jankowski, M., Wareham, H., St Clair Gibson, A. 2011, In: Alcohol and Alcoholism

• SportsAid Trust KTP, Sutherland, M. (Principal Investigator), Partington, S. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/11/19 - 31/10/21, £171,567.00