Sarah Walker

Dr. Sarah Walker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Durham University and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute. She holds expertise in educational psychology, focusing on self-informant agreement in psychological assessments, emotion regulation (both self- and other-directed), and their impacts on interpersonal outcomes. Her work emphasizes the role of emotion regulation in educational contexts, exploring how these processes influence learning, motivation, and relationships.

Dr. Walker completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, before joining Durham University in 2024. Her research bridges educational and social psychology, with a particular interest in the Dark Triad personality traits, emotional intelligence, and the validity of self-report versus informant-based assessments.

Her recent publications include the development of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES), investigations into the Dark Triad’s relationship with emotional intelligence, and meta-analyses on faking behavior in personality assessments. She actively engages with prospective PhD students exploring emotion regulation dynamics in educational and relational settings.

Affiliations include the Wolfson Research Institute, where her interdisciplinary work addresses psychological mechanisms in education and mental health. Her research emphasizes practical applications, such as optimizing cognition-oriented interventions for older adults and improving interpersonal emotion regulation strategies in relationships.