Sarah Coupland
The Power List 2021 – Showstoppers
Sarah is George Holt Chair of Pathology, University of Liverpool; Consultant Histopathologist, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories; and Lead of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group. One of the hardest challenges of her career was her “Habilitation” degree assessment, in which she gave a post-thesis lecture in German, with no notes, using only chalk and a blackboard. Her best career advice? “Careers are not always pathways consisting of straight ladders; they often consist of curves, side-steps and squiggles [...] It is also okay to go ‘off piste’ for a time to do research or gain valuable experience in other ways.”
