Sarah has a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in Science Education. Her work bridges scholarship in the science education and science communication fields and focuses on understanding and improving peoples’ engagement with socioscientific issues, which are science issues that require consideration of scientific, moral, social, and environmental facets. She approaches this topic through two complementary lines of research: (a) investigating the factors (e.g., cognitive, affective, and sociocultural) associated with how people engage in SSI; and (b) examining how science, particularly the nature of science (NOS), can be communicated to the public in various forms to support informed and equitable public socioscientific decision-making.

Areas of Expertise

• Science Education
• Science Communication
• Science Misinformation and Disinformation
• Nature of Science (NOS)
• Informal Science Learning