Kimberley Harding

Kimberley is a Chartered Senior Human Factors Engineer at WSP and Co-Chair of the Rail Industry Neuroinclusive Community (RINC). She specialises in neuro-inclusive design, cognitive ergonomics, and human-centred systems engineering across rail, transport infrastructure, and education environments.

Currently completing her PhD at Durham University – exploring how neurodivergent passengers experience rail and what design can do about it – Kimberley’s research bridges the gap between academic insight and real-world impact. Her work spans major international projects, where she champions inclusive, evidence-based design for people of all cognitive profiles.

Kimberley leads the CIEHF’s Human Factors in Rail special interest group and hosted the inaugural Neurodiversity in Rail conference – the largest event organised by UKRRIN. She is the author of WSP’s global white paper on neurodiversity design and has published in journals including Applied Ergonomics, as well as in a Springer Nature book that combines systems engineering and human factors. She lectures regularly at postgraduate level internationally, including at Durham University and the University of Birmingham (including its Dubai campus), in Systems Engineering and Ergonomics.

Kimberley entered the rail industry at fifteen and has never stopped pushing for environments – whether stations, schools, or workplaces – that welcome and work for everyone.