Sarah Zydervelt

Sarah Zydervelt worked from 2012 to 2016 as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Investigative Interviewing at Deakin University in Australia and as an Assistant Research Fellow and Research Assistant at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She has a diverse set of research skills from conducting literature reviews, data collection and analysis for both quantitative and qualitative studies, and has prepared a report for the Australian Royal Commission in one of her studies. As a barrister and solicitor admitted to the High Court of New Zealand, she is also eligible for admission to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Sarah has worked (both professionally and in a voluntary capacity) as a helpline counsellor and mentor for Youthline, with the Innocence Project and at the Dunedin Community Law Centre, in New Zealand. In this IELTS project, she was involved in a wide range of tasks including recruiting and managing the student writing tasks and assessment panels of academics, and contributing to the analysis of qualitative data.