Sara Hennessy

Sara Hennessy is a British scholar. As of 2022, she is a professor of educational dialogue and pedagogical inquiry in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Hennessy is a Fellow of Hughes Hall college.

She serves as a founding member and leader of the Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research (CEDiR) Group . Aside from educational dialogue, she has worked in the field of EdTech for over three decades, focusing particularly on professional development, teacher inquiry, and interactive pedagogy, including in sub-Saharan Africa. She was a research director of EdTech Hub, a multi-million-pound 8-year program funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and previously editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology.

Biography Hennessy graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1981 and a Masters of Arts from the University of Cambridge. She also holds a PhD in Psychology from the University College London.

Hennessy was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University from 1986 to 1999 before becoming a Senior Research Associate from 1999-2007 and then Lecturer in Teacher Development and Pedagogical Innovation at the University of Cambridge in 2007 until 2011. She was a Senior Lecturer at the university from 2011 until 2015 and a Reader from 2015 until 2021 when she became a professor.

Publications and research projects Her up to date publications list and research projects can be found at https://faculty.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy.