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Sarah Dury (she/her/hers)

tenure track lecturer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Sarah Dury started as a tenure track assistant professor in Adult Educational Sciences in October 2020 after being a postdoc research fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Sarah promoted in March 2015 in the Belgian Ageing Studies research group, with a PhD-dissertation titled "Volunteering in later life: A focus on context” (promotor Dominique Verté). Her research focuses on participation, social inclusion and compassionate communities.



She is involved in several local, national and European research projects. Sarah is coordinator of the Compassionate Communities Expertise Center at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is co-promotor of the project CIVISANO (2019-2021), which focuses on developing healthy communities through participatory research and capacity building of communities with Sciensano. She is also co-promotor of the CIVEX project (European More Years Better Lives) on Exclusion of Civic engagement of a diverse older population: Characteristics, experiences and policy implications (2021-2024). In addition, she coordinates the Erasmus+ project SEE ME (Social inclusion through Meaningful ageing) on how to improve the quality of care and social inclusion for older adults. She is partner of an H2020 project (2019-2023) and supervises six PhD students.



Sarah teaches a course on 'Social design, co-creation and innovation'. She is board member of SamenToujours.

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