Sinead's career over the last 25 years has transitioned from a clinical to an educational role and now also encompasses research. She has spent 20 years in Fiji moving from practicing Obstetrics and Gynaecology to problem based learning for medical students and becoming the pre-clinical coordinator. The graduate certificate in medical education inspired Sinead to develop a faculty development workshop for clinical educators in the Pacific in collaboration with Australian academics. Sinead was then awarded an Australian Awards scholarship to pursue her Masters in Health Professions Education. Her research focused around faculty development in the Pacific and has been presented internationally. Her passion for developing health professions education leaders in the Pacific has guided her current research as she undertakes a PhD.

Sinead's research interests are around effective ways to develop health professions educators in low-resourced countries. Her current research focuses on understanding leadership in health professions education in different contexts to gain a deeper understanding of this phenomenom and guide relevant faculty development. Sinead is a qualitative researcher who believes in research being pragmatic to bring about evidence based improvements.

Sinead is currently a full-time PhD student, but is also employed to teach into a variety of programs at UWA. Sinead has been the coordinator for the Assessment unit in the Masters of Health Professions Education; run problem based learning tutorials for Optometry students and conducted interactive tutorials for Health Humanities in medicine. Sinead has also been trained as a Unimentor to assist new postgraduate research students.