{"id":143,"date":"2023-04-27T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:38:53","slug":"sarah-norcross","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/sarah-norcross\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Norcross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sarah Norcross<\/strong>\u00a0is Director of the\u00a0Progress Educational Trust<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(PET<\/strong>)\u00a0and Commissioning Editor of its flagship publication\u00a0BioNews<\/strong><\/a>. Together with\u00a0Sandy Starr<\/strong><\/a>, she organises\u00a0PET<\/strong>‘s\u00a0public events<\/a>. Sarah often represents\u00a0PET<\/strong>\u00a0in the media nationally (including on the\u00a0Today<\/a>\u00a0programme,\u00a0BBC News<\/a>,\u00a0ITV News<\/a>,\u00a05 News<\/a>,\u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/a>,\u00a0Sunday Morning Live<\/a>) and internationally (including on\u00a0BBC World News<\/a>,\u00a0Mittagsmagazin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Fala Brasil<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0Die Welt<\/a>), as well as in more specialist publications (including\u00a0Science<\/a>\u00a0magazine and the\u00a0British Medical Journal<\/a>). Sarah is also a Trustee at the\u00a0British Fertility Society (BFS)<\/a>, Chair of the BFS Special Interest Group on Law, Policy and Ethics, and an External Adviser to the\u00a0University of Cambridge<\/a>‘s\u00a0Reproduction Strategic Research Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah serves on the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology’s Working Group on Add-Ons, on the National Infertility Group convened by the Scottish Government, and on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s Patient Organisation Stakeholder Group. She was previously Co-chair of the campaigning organisation Fertility Fairness, and she also chaired a group of clinicians, scientists, patient support groups and medical research charities which campaigned and advised on the content of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 as it passed through the UK Parliament. She has advised on numerous research projects, most recently Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and Donor-Conception and Egg Donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain. Previously, she worked as a Barrister carrying out advocacy in civil and criminal courts on the Northern Circuit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Norcross\u00a0is Director of the\u00a0Progress Educational Trust\u00a0(PET)\u00a0and Commissioning Editor of its flagship publication\u00a0BioNews. Together with\u00a0Sandy Starr, she organises\u00a0PET‘s\u00a0public events. Sarah often represents\u00a0PET\u00a0in the media nationally (including on the\u00a0Today\u00a0programme,\u00a0BBC News,\u00a0ITV News,\u00a05 News,\u00a0Good Morning Britain,\u00a0Sunday Morning Live) and internationally (including on\u00a0BBC World News,\u00a0Mittagsmagazin\u00a0and\u00a0Fala Brasil\u00a0and in\u00a0Die Welt), as well as in more specialist publications (including\u00a0Science\u00a0magazine and the\u00a0British Medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}