Sarah Bankins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Sydney. She completed her Ph.D. at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her primary research interests span two areas, linked by a focus on the role of people in work processes. Her first research area investigates the employee-employer relationship through the lens of the psychological contract. Her second research area focuses on individuals' roles in innovation processes in organizational and regional contexts to explore how people navigate cultural, political and power dynamics to achieve innovative outcomes. She has published her work in leading journals such as the Journal of Organizational Behavior, R&D Management and the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
