Sarah leads the DevDivLab. Her research is concerned with understanding how the autistic mind processes and represents information, with a particular focus on mentalizing. She’s especially interested in how these cognitive differences might affect other aspects of cognition and mental health in autism, and whether they can be modulated by changes to the social environment.

Sarah is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and, prior to this, held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship and an MRC/ESRC postdoctoral fellowship. She completed her PhD in 2006 at UCL with Uta Frith and Elisabeth Hill, and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Physiology from Oxford University.