Sarah’s expertise lies with anthropological perspectives on safety and disaster management, with a specialization in risk perception, institutional risk framing and the governance of emerging water scarcity.
She supports UNU-INWEH Global Water Security Assessment by identifying and extracting relevant datasets, conducting statistical and quantitative analyses and contributing to drafting and revising report sections. She furthermore assists with research and analytical tasks across other UNU-INWEH Water and Global Health projects, including data preparation, background research and synthesis of findings.
Sarah's interest in water-related risks was first sparked by research she conducted as part of her bachelor's degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. This led her to pursue a master's degree in Safety and Disaster Management at the Technical University of Leoben (Austria) with a focus on the governance of water scarcity. In addition, Sarah completed a training program with the Austrian Red Cross Disaster Relief Service in the field of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion.