Sarah Wayland is an Australian social worker and health researcher. Her research focuses on the areas of missing persons,

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, grief and

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. She is Professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences at the CQ University, Sydney (Australia) and a Senior Research Fellow fo
Manna Institute

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 Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts (WCMT) are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill, based in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. They exist for the purpose of administering Churchill Fellowships, a ...

to study "the international approach to counselling for families of missing persons focusing on the concept of unresolved loss". She obtained her PhD from the

University of New England University of New England may refer to: * University of New England (Australia), in New South Wales, with about 26,000 students * University of New England (United States), in Biddeford, Maine, with about 6,000 students See also * New England Coll ...

in 2015, studying hope and

, and was awarded the Chancellors Medal for Doctoral Research. In 2019, she collaborated with the

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br>National Missing Persons Coordination Centre
to publish "Acknowledging the Empty Space", a resource for those supporting people whose loved one is missing. She is a regular contributor to

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and

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, and SBS.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wayland, Sarah Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian social workers Academic staff of the University of New England (Australia) University of New England (Australia) alumni