Sarah Norcross is Director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and Commissioning Editor of its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. She is also a Member of the Education, Engagement and Training Working Group of the UK Government's Human Genomics Strategy Group, the National Infertility Awareness Campaign's Committee, the National Gamete Donation Trust's Advisory Council, the Association of Fertility Patient Organisations, and Transnational Reproduction's Research Advisory Group. She was previously a Member of the National Genetics Education and Development Centre's Steering Group.

Sarah chaired and coordinated the steering group of clinicians, scientists, patient support groups and medical research charities which fed into policy for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 as it passed through both Houses of Parliament, and she continued this role during the implementation of the Act by the UK Government's Department of Health and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Together with Sandy Starr she organises PET's public engagement events, and she regularly attends other organisations' events with a view to commissioning comment pieces for BioNews. Previously she worked as a Barrister carrying out advocacy in the civil and criminal courts on the Northern Circuit, and as Vice Chair of the Daisy Network Premature Menopause Support Group.

Left to right: Professor John Dupré, Connie St Louis, Dr Alun Williams, Dr Anand Saggar, (at podium) Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Genetic Medalling
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

At podium: Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Genetic Medalling
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

Left to right: Dr Anand Saggar, (at podium) Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Genetic Medalling
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

At lectern: Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Will Pharmacogenetics Lead to Colour-Coded Medicine?
Photograph by Doreen Hampson

Left to right: Professor Munir Pirmohamed, Sarah Norcross
Photograph by Doreen Hampson

Left to right: Sarah Norcross, Dr Richard Tutton
Photograph by Doreen Hampson

At lectern: Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Is There a Place for Race in Biology?
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

Left to right: Sarah Norcross, Sally Sheldon
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust's 2010 annual conference Passport to Parenthood: The Evidence and Ethics Behind Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Photograph by MacKenna Roberts

Left to right: Natalie Gamble, Sarah Norcross
At the Progress Educational Trust's 2010 annual conference Passport to Parenthood: The Evidence and Ethics Behind Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Photograph by MacKenna Roberts

Left to right: Professor Marcus Pembrey, John Parsons, Sarah Norcross
At the Progress Educational Trust's 2010 annual conference Passport to Parenthood: The Evidence and Ethics Behind Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Photograph by MacKenna Roberts

At podium: Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Paying Egg Donors: A Child At Any Price?
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

Left to right: Dr Anand Saggar, Professor Derek Bolton, Professor Nick Craddock, Fenno Outen, (at podium) Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event Marked for Life: Are Genetic Markers Helpful in Understanding Psychological Disorders?
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda

At lectern: Sarah Norcross
Speaking at the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon

Left to right: Laura Riley, Juliet Tizzard, Sarah Norcross, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon