Sue Bird (engineer)

Bird studied Applied Physics at Coventry Polytechnic, then worked at the British Aircraft Corporation as an acoustics engineer for Concorde, and other aircraft, then joined the Scientific Branch in the Greater London Council as an acoustic consultant specialising mainly in building acoustics.

This was a consultancy specialising in acoustics and noise control where she stayed until her retirement in 2008.

She is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics and has been both chair and President of the Association of Noise Consultants.

In 1993 Bird was a member of the Working Group on ‘Women in Science Technology and Engineering’ for Office of Science & Technology which produced the report ‘The Rising Tide’.

[2] Bird was a governor at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College for 25 years and is now a Parish Councillor.