Sarah Hume

Sarah is the Principal Psychologist Manager in the Psychology Service of the Irish Prison Service. She has over 25 years’ experience of providing psychological assessment and intervention to address mental health and offence related needs in prisons in both the UK & Ireland. In her current role Sarah leads the operational day to day management function of the Psychology Service in the Irish Prison Service.

Sarah is also an accredited Psychotherapist and holds an MSc in Leadership in Healthcare. She is a trained facilitator in Mentalisation Based Therapy, which she applies every day in her clinical practise and her role as a leader, clinical supervisor and member of multi-disciplinary teams.

Sarah co-leads the management of self-injury and suicidality research and policy development across the Irish Prison Estate. She works in tandem with the National Office for Suicide Prevention and the National Suicide Research Foundation in publishing annual research on self-harm and suicide in prisons.

Sarah is a PhD Candidate with Durham University investigating and researching the issue of prevention and desistance from self-injury and suicidality.