Sarah Parks

Senior Analyst at RAND Europe

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Senior Analyst, RAND Europe

Sarah Parks is a senior analyst at RAND Europe with significant expertise in science and research policy. Since joining RAND Europe she has been involved in policy research and analysis for a wide range of clients, including the European Commission (DG RTD), the UK Department of Health, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the British Standards Institution. She is particularly interested in research systems, and the pathway from research to industry. Her projects have covered topics including oversight of science and technology, Open Science and citizen science, the assessment of research impact and evaluation of research programmes, bibliometrics, innovation in health systems, and synthetic biology.

Parks has a Ph.D. in mathematical and statistical methods in evolutionary biology which she undertook at the European Bioinformatics Institute and the University of Cambridge. During her doctoral studies she also worked at the Office for National Statistics looking at the use of open data to supplement or replace the census.

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.