Awarded UKRI Policy Fellowship 2025-2029

Awarded King's College London Worldwide Partnership Fund Grant 2018

Awarded Clore Social Leadership Fellowship 2016

Dr Marie-Louise Sharp is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London and a Senior Behavioural Research Fellow (UKRI Policy Fellowship) at the University of Birmingham (CENTRE-UB), seconded into the Cabinet Office. 

Marie-Louise is a mixed methods researcher and has research expertise in psychological medicine and epidemiology. Her UKRI policy fellowship aims to upskill the Civil Service and leaders in government in applying behavioural and social science methods/evidence to develop more effective strategy, policy and practice to improve outcomes for UK citizens and UK interests abroad.

Her research interests include military mental health and help-seeking behaviours, the health and wellbeing of Emergency Responders and has a focus on methods to extend research impact. She was the academic lead on the KCMHR Phase Four of the UK Armed Forces Health and Wellbeing Cohort Study funded by the Office for Veterans’ Affairs and Project Manager for the SUSTAIN project funded by FiMT - 'Identifying and examining the barriers to female veterans making a successful and sustainable transition to civilian life in the UK'.

She is a member of the Five Eyes Mental Health Research and Innovation Collaborative focused on improving international research and mental health outcomes for the Armed Forces community. Marie-Louise previously worked in the non-profit sector specialising in Armed Forces healthcare policy. Marie-Louise also has a background in political science having trained at post-graduate level at Oxford University.