Dr Hunter is as a Senior Research Fellow in Implementation Science and Systems within the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Sarah's research focuses on understanding the complex and diverse ways in which caregivers enact child rearing, the challenges they face, and the support they need to overcome them. Through an integrated Knowledge Translation approach, her research develops, in partnership with caregivers, practical and feasible strategies that can be implemented to support Australian adults in their caregiving role. Sarah also leads the Flinders Implementation and Translation Academy which aims to build researcher capacity in knowledge translation and implementation science. She recently published a textbook “Navigating Knowledge Translation in Health and Care” which underpins the Academy’s approach. She also leads the continual refinement of the integrated-Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (i-PARIHS) framework. The i-PARIHS framework is a conceptual framework that aims to represent the dynamic interplay of factors that influence successful implementation of evidence into practice.

Sarah is a close collaborator of Dr Karen Matvienko Sikar and Dr Dimity Dutch within the School of Public Health in University College Cork.  They currently collaborate on the HRB funded SCOPE project (Standardised Measurement for Childhood Obesity Prevention).