[3] Sue Roffey trained as a teacher, and spent most of her teaching career working with students experiencing emotional, social and behavioural challenges.
After completing her doctorate in educational psychology at UEL, she moved to Australia, and subsequently began teaching on the training course for school counsellors at the University of Western Sydney (UWS).
As her writing and external training developed she moved to an adjunct position at UWS and began working internationally.
[4] Roffey has developed Circle Solutions, a framework for social and emotional learning based in the ASPIRE principles of Agency, Safety, Positivity, Inclusion, Respect and Equity.
• A scoping study on school wellbeing,[17] Toni Noble, Helen McGrath, Sue Roffey & Louise Rowling, (Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Australian Commonwealth Government, 2008).
• Young Friends: Schools and Friendship, (Cassell, 1994), with Tony Tarrant and Karen Majors: also available in Danish, Er du min ven?