Graham Sparey-Taylor is a Research Lecturer at the Sustainable Vehicle Technologies and an active member of the lecturing staff at Glyndwr University, Wrexham North Wales. He is an electro-mechanical engineer with a diverse background. He holds a PhD in MicroNano Technology and an electronics degree from Cardiff University, as well as being a qualified toolmaker. He was the project leader for the award winning Welsh solar car team Gwawr which received the “Panasonic World Solar Challenge 2007 Environmental Awareness Award”.

Graham Sparey-Taylor is the programme leader for the Performance Car Technology suite of degree schemes. His teaching portfolio has developed to cover topics such as electronics at levels 4 and 6, to mechanical engineering design at level 5 with engine technology at L6. He has been involved in course preparation at MSc level, considering the topic of sustainable and alternative energy sources. His primary research focus is in drive cycle analysis and conservation of energy in road vehicles, although he has published papers on topics as diverse as ultrasonic particle manipulation system for non terrestrial environments, orthopedic medicine and the impact of nano-technology and he has been granted a patent in the field of MNT.  More recently he has been invited to present a paper to the PVSAT5 conference April 2009. The paper reviewed the Gwawr car and provided new data for Gwawr II, which is designed to run in NASC2010.

Following his studies he managed the Micro-Tooling department at the Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff. During his time there, he directly assisted 75 companies in the advancement and use of micro- nano- technologies, advising two new start-up companies in the Wales into being. He also assisted in the conceptualisation and preparation of several proposals such as 4M under FP5 awarded to Professor Pham for 7MEuro and MicroBridge which was awarded on second pass for £2.7M DTI. Further, during this time Graham established ‘The MNT Academy’ which was funded by the Welsh Assembly Government Knowledge Exploration programme. The academy sought to educate and train a network from apprenticeships to MSc in the arts of MNT. The academy also produced the “Barrow-Bahu report” mapping the British MNT infrastructure.