Sarah Harding is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She is currently working as a qualitative researcher exploring barriers and facilitators to recruitment in randomised controlled trials.

Since completing her PhD, which focused on physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents, Sarah has contributed to a diverse range of public health research projects. Her work has included studies of physical activity and nutrition in preschool-aged children; wellbeing among secondary school students and teachers; mental health and wellbeing in children and young people in state care; and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Most recently, Sarah worked on the BEAR (Bristol Evaluation of Advertising Restrictions) study. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of public health policy interventions, particularly advertising restriction policies and their potential impact on population health.