Meet the team
Dr Sarah Loch
Over her career in education, Dr Sarah Loch has been a social educator for adults with disability, a secondary school English and History teacher, wellbeing leader, school executive leader, and academic and research assistant in Education at a number of Australian universities. She is the founding Director of the Pymble Institute where she works with students and staff, as well as academics and partners from external organisations, to create opportunities for research.
Sarah gained her PhD in Education from the University of Queensland with a thesis examining ways young adolescent girls select school subjects and plan for their futures. She has a Masters degree in Teaching and another in the Middle Years of Schooling.
She supports students and staff in their research endeavours on an individual basis and through the Sokratis program, professional learning and building partnerships with academics. Sarah holds an Honorary Appointment as an Industry/Professional Fellow with International Studies and Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. She is a Fellow of the New South Wales Teachers’ Guild.
Victoria Adamovich
Victoria Adamovich moved from Taipei to London at the age of eight and studied French and Politics at The University of Edinburgh. After working for a decade as a marketing executive in Asia, she retrained as a teacher at the University of Hong Kong. She taught in bilingual English-Chinese schools in Hong Kong and Shanghai before returning with her family to Sydney in 2017 to work at Pymble Ladies College as an EAL/D teacher. She believes in the importance of maintaining heritage languages and that cultural literacy is a crucial skill for our students. In order to better understand the students and families she supports; she embarked on a Master of Research at University Technology Sydney to study the wellbeing of migrant children.
Victoria also works as the Research Associate with the Pymble Institute. In this role, she helps run the College’s ethics committee and research conferences; conducts literature reviews on strategic College projects; and data collection and analysis of research projects in the College such as the longitudinal research on the Residential Program at Vision Valley. She has also authored a children’s picture book “The Story of My Names” which was performed by the Year 5 students.