Appointed to Council in late 2012, Sharon was a secondary school teacher in South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales and has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of New South Wales.
Sharon is currently an academic at the University of Wollongong (UoW) where she has been Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Director of Teaching and Learning, she teaches and researches in the areas of cognition and instruction and in the two key inter-related areas: teacher policy and teacher learning and leading.
Her son Jackson attended Wyvern and graduated from Newington (ON 2016) and her nephew Lachlan commenced at Newington in 2019.
Current role