Sarah Norcross
Commissioning Editor
Sarah Norcross is Commissioning Editor of BioNews and Director of the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). 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.
BioNews Comment articles written by Sarah Norcross:
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| 23 January 2012 - by |
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We were really excited to offer BioNews readers the opportunity to donate to our BioNews Christmas Appeal by text message. But now we realise that we used the wrong number! So if you have kindly donated to our appeal by text we won't have received it and you won't have been charged for it. If you would like to donate please text PROG23 £amount to 70070...[Read More] |
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| 19 December 2011 - by |
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In my last comment piece 'A BioNews Christmas Carol' I tried to amuse you all while asking you to donate. I was obviously far too subtle with talk of Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas as the donations for BioNews have indeed 'yet to come'. Only three generous readers have made a donation...[Read More] |
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| 05 December 2011 - by |
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I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little comment piece, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their inboxes pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. A quotation adapted from the dedication in Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'....[Read More] |
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| 14 November 2011 - by |
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This year the Progress Educational Trust decided to exhibit at the Fertility Show again. The Fertility Show is a popular consumer event aimed at those who want information or advice on fertility. But as such, it evokes mixed feelings...[Read More] |
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| 24 October 2011 - by |
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A week is a long time in fertility and embryo research policy. That's why the Progress Educational Trust is launching a new appeal...[Read More] |
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| 17 October 2011 - by |
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This edition of BioNews sees a new Science Editor, as James Brooks takes over from Dr Vivienne Raper....[Read More] |
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| 26 September 2011 - by |
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Throughout 2011 the charity that publishes BioNews, the Progress Educational Trust, has been running a Wellcome Trust supported project entitled 'Genes, Ancestry and Racial Identity: Does It Matter Where Your Genes Come From?'. The project is now concluding with an online poll which we'd like to encourage all BioNews readers to complete...[Read More] |
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| 30 June 2011 - by |
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This week sees a change (or should that be a mutation?) of BioNews Genetics Editor, as Dr Rebecca Hill takes over from Chris Chatterton...[Read More] |
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| 18 April 2011 - by |
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The BioNews team are in the depths of depression. Even an early visit from the Easter bunny hasn't cheered us up. Why?...[Read More] |
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| 11 April 2011 - by |
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The Birthday Appeal received a welcome boost from people attending the Progress Educational Trust's debate 'Is there a Place for Race in Biology?' last week....[Read More] |
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BioNews Review articles written by Sarah Norcross:
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Event Review: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 - A Multidisciplinary Workshop |
| 31 January 2011 - by |
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When the invitation to this event dropped into my inbox, I immediately replied 'yes please'. This academic workshop of around 30 participants covered the legislative and policymaking process, and subsequent impact of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 2008...[Read More] |
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| 26 July 2010 - by |
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'Cutting Edge goes behind the headlines to intimately portray how gay millionaires Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow's determination to have more children has affected them and their kids' said the teaser on the Channel 4 website. If I hadn't known this programme involved surrogacy, I would have dismissed it as yet another reality show about out-of-control children...[Read More] |
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| 12 April 2010 - by |
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First as a reviewer of this book I have a declaration of interest (or lack thereof): I have no faith....[Read More] |
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Book Review: Marginalised Reproduction - Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies |
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When leading family researcher Professor Susan Golombok says a book is 'important and highly illuminating' and 'it should be read by everyone with a connection to the field', I thought I should add it to my 'to do' list...[Read More] |
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| 21 December 2009 - by |
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The first question I asked when picking up this book was: What is the image on the cover? Closer inspection and the power of Google revealed it is a dried poppy head (somniferum papaver) not, as I first thought, the egg from Alien - the science fiction horror film. What message does this convey? |
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BioNews News articles written by Sarah Norcross:
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UK has new minister responsible for fertility and embryology |
| 25 May 2010 - by |
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Following the general election in the UK and the formation of the new coalition government, Anne Milton MP has become the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and so is the Government Minister responsible for fertility and embryology. She is the Conservative MP for Guildford - a seat which she won from the Liberal Democrats in 2005....[Read More] |
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| 03 August 2009 - by |
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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published new figures showing the number of new egg and sperm donors registered in 2008. The figures published on 31 July 2009 show that the number of both sperm and egg donors has increased....[Read More] |
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| 15 June 2009 - by |
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Clare Lewis-Jones, Chief Executive of Infertility Network UK (I N UK) and More to Life, the largest national charity providing help, support and information to those suffering the effects of infertility, has been awarded a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to healthcare....[Read More] |
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| 18 May 2009 - by |
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BioNews is published by the Progress Educational Trust a small UK registered charity which battles for funding to keep BioNews in operation and free of charge. Back in January we launched the 500 Fivers Appeal to coincide with the publication of...[Read More] |
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The Progress Educational Trust (PET) is delighted to announce a new service from BioNews: a 'jobs' section. Today's issue of BioNews contains PET's first job advertisement, placed and paid for by the Human Genetics Commission. Why has PET decided to do this? Like many small charities, PET struggles to find...[Read More] |
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Progress Educational Trust would like to congratulate Dr Simon Best, who has been awarded an OBE for his services to the bioscience industry. Simon Best is founder and Chairman of Ardana Bioscience, based in Edinburgh, specialising in human reproductive biology and is a...[Read More] |
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