The Education Media Centre, modelled on the Science Media Centre, launched this month. Here, in a guest blogpost the EMC’s Chief Executive, former BBC Education Correspondent Sue Littlemore, reports on its first media briefing on one of the most controversial areas of education research: genetics.
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This is a blogpost by Tom Sheldon, Senior Press Officer at the SMC. This week the SMC ran a … read more
This is a blogpost by Tom Sheldon, Senior Press Officer at the SMC. The IPCC has published the first … read more
This is a blogpost by Robin Bisson, Science Information Officer at the SMC. A slightly shorter version of this was … read more
This is a guest blog by Tom Sheldon, Senior Press Officer at the Science Media Centre. This week at the SMC… read more
This is a guest blogpost by Helen Jamison, Deputy Director of the Science Media Centre. The ‘pathway to death’ … read more
Speaking on Radio 4’s PM about Owen Paterson’s GM speech last week, food campaigner Joanna Blythman attacked the SMC for … read more
I met my future husband at a protest outside BBC Broadcasting House in 1989, called to mark the first anniversary … read more
This is a guest post by Tom Sheldon, Senior Press Officer at the SMC. As a society we look … read more
(Updated 24 May to include a personal perspective from Adrian Bull) Fiona took part in a debate session held at … read more
This is an extract from an article that appeared on the Guardian website on Friday 29th April. When Jeremy … read more
This is a guest blogpost by Helen Jamison, Deputy Director of the Science Media Centre and originally appeared on Independent Voices … read more
This is a guest blogpost by Helen Jamison, Deputy Director of the Science Media Centre, and originally appeared on the … read more
Soon after former BBC director general George Entwistle let it be known he wanted more female experts on the BBC… read more
This article originally appeared on the Guardian website here. If anyone wonders why the Science Media Centre gave evidence to the Leveson … read more
There was a cry of anguish from environment scientists and journalists alike at the news that Richard Black has left … read more
Guest post from Tom Sheldon. On 18th September we were tipped off by several respected journalists about a peer-reviewed paper … read more
When a House of Lords Inquiry on science recommended a new initiative to sit on the ‘front line’ between science and the … read more
Heard the row about ‘explainers’ versus ‘exposers’ or between the ‘boat-rockers’ versus the ‘cheerleaders for science’? No? My goodness guys … read more
The news that the Government had moved to ban all research on human-animal hybrid embryos came late in December 2006, just as … read more
