Sarah Homan Email & Phone Number

Naarm/Melbourne

I currently work at The Equality Institute. We are a global research and creative agency working to advance gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls. We work with clients and collaborators to develop research, guide policies and programmes, and design creative campaigns to incite social change across the world. Some of our clients include DFAT, Oxfam Australia, UNWomen, and The Gates Foundation. In my role as a research associate I have the privilege of working on cutting edge research that is seeking solutions to ending violence against women and girls. Some of my responsibilities include conducting process and impact evaluations of violence prevention programs, training and capacity development of researchers in developing contexts, and the dissemination of findings for a variety of audiences, in the form of academic papers, blogs, reports and policy briefs.

Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

Australia

Contracted to the World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly OIE) and working in collaboration with veterinarian and disease risk management experts, I assisted in training and overseeing fieldwork with veterinarians in Malaysia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. The project centred on capacity development around qualitative research methods for understanding human facilitated animal movement and the risk assessment of disease spread. A novel approach to data collection in this field, the veterinarians were trained in sociological, qualitative methods to engage communities in data collection in order to assess the risk pathways of disease spread in animals and livestock.

Melbourne, Australia

I have lectured extensively in the role Lecturer in Charge (LIC) at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). I have been responsible for the coordination of six units in International Development, Politics, Global Studies and Sociological Research Methods. This entailed creating unit outlines and course material, writing lectures, as well as general administration and teaching.

Melbourne, Australia

MIFF is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, taking place annually in the heart of Melbourne. MIFF showcases the best in current cinema from across the world, and is also the largest showcase of emerging Australian film. As a Front of House Manager, I was charged with the operations of a cinema, looking after the staff and volunteers, as well ensuring patrons received an excellent festival experience. Key responsibilities included – - Briefing staff and volunteers on daily schedules and operations;- Managing staff and volunteer roles to ensure the timely operations of events;- Customer service, including patron liaison, crowd and queuing control;- Special guest liaison, including overseeing special events, such as Q and A’s.

Melbourne, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Wirltu Yarlu is responsible for engaging with and recruiting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as well as providing support to students during their time at the University of Adelaide.Key responsibilities included – - Prepared task specific lessons for students; - Engaged in one-on-one student mentorship; - Determined and marked student assignments.

Adelaide, Australia/Surkhet Nepal

For two years I lived and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Surkhet, a remote district in Western Nepal. For my anthropological study I worked in the women’s rights and development sector, focussing on the lives of women and girls and how discourses of honour and shame provide meaningful frameworks for the experiences of womanhood. I worked extensively in collaboration with four NGOs. Key responsibilities included – - Research project design and implementation;- Adherence to ethical research standards and practices, as laid out by The University of Adelaide Human Research Ethics Committee;- Conducting qualitative ethnographic research methods, including, interviewing, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), detailed field-note taking, concept mapping, participant-observation/participant experience, and genealogies;- Survey design and implementation;- Collating, coding and analysing qualitative and quantitative data;- Collaborating with local NGOs and stakeholders in research for programme implementation and efficacy, report writing and English language support. - Community networking with the view to promote my research and gain participants from a cross section of the local community;- Organising additional in-country travel to remote mountain and plains districts for further comparative research;- Literature reviews;- Participation and delivery of research paper in the 2013 Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies Anthropological Conference in Kathmandu; - Collation of the project’s data in thesis format and also a chapter contribution to the edited edition, ‘Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections’ (forthcoming).

Adelaide

I have experience tutoring in the Anthropology and Development Studies Department at the University of Adelaide. Subjects I tutored were ‘Anthropology of Conflict and Crisis’, ‘Poverty and Social Development’ and ‘Anthropology of Life, Death and Culture’. At the university undergraduate students are required to give feedback on tutor performance, called a Student Experience of Learning and Teaching evaluation (SELT). My SELT results consistently demonstrated a high level of efficacy when it came to tutoring, disseminating information and facilitating class discussion and written work with students.Key Responsibilities included – - Prepared task specific lessons for students; - Taught in a classroom setting and also one-on-one student mentorship; - Determined and marked student curriculum.

Adelaide, Australia

This role involved venue operations, audience and performer liaison, spruiking and marketing, and crowd control.

Taumarunui, New Zealand

Kip McGrath is a literacy and numeracy tutoring facility for children and adults. Key responsibilities included – - Tutoring literacy, maths, and essay writing to students aged five to sixteen;- Tutoring adult students in English as a Second Language; - Lesson planning and grading student work.

Whanganui, New Zealand

At Michael Hill Jewellers in Whanganui, New Zealand, I worked as part of a close-knit team to achieve high standards of customer service and the overall sale targets for the store. Key responsibilities included – - Customer service and sales;- Merchandising; - Jewellery cleaning

Adelaide, Australia

Lutheran Community Care provides community services on behalf of the Lutheran Church in South Australia and Northern Territory. As a key member of the Refugee Services and New Settler Services branch, our team provided refugees key support services. Key responsibilities included – - Volunteer recruitment and volunteer programme management;- Planning and implementation of volunteer recruitment drives, inductions and ongoing training;- Meeting set targets of volunteer recruitment and organisation KPIs;- Maintaining a visible presence in the community, promoting volunteering amongst established and new migrant communities;- Ongoing client and volunteer support for the organisation’s African mother’s group, Afghan women’s fitness group and children’s and youth homework club.

Adelaide, Australia

Key Responsibilities included –- Customer service; - Staff training;- Cleaning and remerchandising; - Stock take management.

Adelaide, Australia

Customer service, cleaning and merchandising, managing lay-bys and stock take management.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Anthropology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology (Honours), First Class Honours

Bachelor Of Media, Communication And Media Studies