Professor Sarah Sharples

Chief Scientific Adviser at Department for Transport (DfT)

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Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport
Professor of Human Factors in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham.

Professor Sarah Sharples is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport. She is a Professor of Human Factors in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and from 2018 to 2021 was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and People.

She has led research in transport, manufacturing and healthcare, and currently leads the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Connected Everything Network Plus.

She founded and is co-director of the EPSRC Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), and has led research programmes examining implementation of new technologies in rail, highways and aviation.

She was President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors from 2015 to 2016.

Department for Transport (DfT)

Chief Scientific Adviser

  • 26 September 2023, 5pm

    Future of Transport: Decarbonising a complex system

    The 2023 Annual Cleevely Lecture was delivered by Professor Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Adviser in the Department for Transport.

  • 22 February 2017

    Future of mobility

    The Government Office for Science, is undertaking a Foresight Project on the Future of Mobility. This project will bring together cutting-edge academic research, industry expertise and policy making to consider the future transport landscape. The project will work with policy makers to consider what this evidence base means for policy development in this area. Further to this, by assessing and prioritising key trends in mobility, a set of future scenarios wil be developed and their consequences analysed. Among other themes, the project will examine the social and demographic drivers changing the future transport landscape.