Rate My Professor Sarah Blower

Her research specializations encompass the design, adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of complex interventions targeting infant and child mental health, parenting, family wellbeing, and reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in child development. She employs diverse methodologies, including randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies, systematic reviews, process evaluations, and qualitative methods. Key projects under her leadership include the STRIVE study to enhance access to parenting interventions, SPIRE evaluation of Start for Life prompts, FINCH feasibility trial of Forest Schools, Ready to Relate intervention evaluation, Me and My Baby questionnaire development, and BiBBS ACHIEVE cohort enhancement. She has secured funding from NIHR, ESRC, DfE, and Nesta, including an ESRC Impact Accelerator Fellowship for collaborations with Chance UK and a DfE grant for the Step Change evaluation of services for adolescents on the edge of care. Notable publications comprise 'Do socioeconomic inequalities contribute to the high prevalence of child developmental risk in an ethnically diverse, socioeconomically disadvantaged population? A Born in Bradford's Better Start (BiBBS) study' (2026, BMJ Paediatrics Open), 'Reimagining early years services to address childhood inequities: learning from the Born in Bradford evaluation of a Better Start Bradford' (2026, BMJ Paediatrics Open), 'An assessment of the teacher completed "Early Years Foundation Stage Profile" as a routine measure of child developmental health' (2025, PLOS ONE), and contributions to the E-SEE trial on Incredible Years programmes (2021). She serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and holds memberships in networks such as the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health, and Co-production Network for Wales. Her work fosters collaborations with charities, local authorities, and health services to scale impactful interventions.