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Sarah is a Professor in Materials Engineering and Head of the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics in the Faculty of Science and Environment. She has research interests in the sustainable use of materials and materials failure. She has an undergraduate degree in ceramics and glasses from the University of Sheffield, a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Nottingham, and a PGCert(HE) from Durham University. She did her post-doctoral research at the University of Nottingham and was a visiting researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. In 1998 she moved to Durham University to a lectureship in the School of Engineering and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005. In 2008 she joined the University of Cumbria’s Energy Coast campus project to lead work on the development of new engineering degree programmes to support the West Cumbria nuclear and renewables supply chain. In 2010 she joined the department of Engineering at the University of Lancaster where she held leadership roles including Director of Teaching and Faculty EDI representative. She was promoted to Personal Chair in 2018 and in 2022 was appointed inaugural Head of the Lancaster School of Engineering.

Sarah is a Fellow of IOM3 and the Women’s Engineering Society and holds CEng and CEnv. She is a member of the IOM3 Academic and Professional Formation Committee, is an accreditor for IOM3 CEng degree programmes and Level 3 apprenticeships, and a member of the EngC Professional Recognition Forum. She has held external examinerships for undergraduate programmes at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Huddersfield and the Dyson Institute of Engineering & Technology and currently is external examiner for Swansea University. She is a college member of EPSRC and a review panel member for the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Carnegie Trust.

Sarah has supervised over 60 Masters and PhD projects and has received funding from UKRI, EPSRC, ERDF, Innovate, TSB, Ceres Power, Royal Society, Sir John Fisher Foundation, Fletchers Group, Gilkes & Gordon, Cumbria Recycling, Morgan Matroc, Biomet and De Puy CMW.