Professor Sarah Catherine Sharples
FREng
Vice President and Dean of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester , as of Oct 2026
Fellow , Elected 2024 , East Midlands , Academia
Listed by the Academy’s directory under University of Nottingham
Sarah Catherine Sharples is a British chartered ergonomist and academic specialising in human factors and ergonomics.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Expertise
- Education and Training
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Manufacturing
- Policy
- Research and Development
- Science and Society
- Systems Engineering
- Technology Impact
- Transport
- Transport Planning
- Transport Safety
- Transportation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer-Human Interaction
- Design
- Distributed Computing
- Diversity
- Engineering Design
- Engineering Education
- Ergonomics
- Hazard and Risk Analysis
- Health and Safety
- Higher Education
- Hydrogen Economy
- Industrial Design
- Innovation
- Intelligent Systems
- Learning and Development
- Product Design
- Railway
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Methodology
- Safety-Critical Systems
- Accidents
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- human factors engineering
Links
Sources
- Identity
Confirmed (grade A) , Wikidata records their election in 2024 , Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026
Why we think this is them
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , records their election in 2024
OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , matches the ORCID record Wikidata gives
RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , lists them under University of Nottingham , lists them under University of Manchester
RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , announces their election in 2024
manchester.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , states they are a Fellow
royce.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , states they are a Fellow
gov.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , names them with their organisation or field
- Directory entry, Listed under
RAEng directory , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence
- Role
manchester.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , low confidence
- Organisation
manchester.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , medium confidence
- Sector
manchester.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , inferred from the organisation , facts , medium confidence
- Summary
Wikipedia , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC BY-SA 4.0 , high confidence
- Topics
OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence
manchester.ac.uk , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , low confidence
- Links
RAEng citation: RAEng citation , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence , as of 2024
Wikipedia, Website, ORCID, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Wikidata: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
ORCID: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
OpenAlex: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence