| Fiona Fox
Director | | |  Fiona is the Science Media Centre's founding director, holding this position since its inception in 2002. In the initial stages of the project she consulted with leading scientists, press officers and key journalists in science, health and environmental news before establishing the core values on which the Centre now operates. Since then she has worked tirelessly to establish the Centre as an invaluable asset to both the scientific and journalistic communities in the UK. Fiona has a degree in Journalism and 15 years
experience in media relations. She held the position of Senior Press
Officer for the Equal Opportunities Commission for six years, followed
by two years running the media operation at the National Council for
One Parent Families. A total change of environment followed as Fiona
became Head of Media at CAFOD, one of the UK's leading aid agencies.
She founded the Jubilee 2000 press group, which helped to force serious
Third World issues onto the media and political agendas. Fiona is an
experienced public speaker and a trained journalist, who has written
extensively for newspapers and publications, authored several policy
papers and contributed to books on humanitarian aid. Read
Fiona Fox's blog, On Science and the Media Fiona
also chairs the programme committee for the upcoming 6th
World Conference of Science Journalists, coming to London in
June/July 2009
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Helen Jamison
Senior
Press Officer | | |  Helen
joined the Science Media Centre in October 2007 as the
Engineering Press Officer and was promoted to Senior Press Officer in
April 2008, where she takes a lead on organisation strategy and helps Fiona keep the boys in check.
Having previously worked in the press office of the
international science journal Nature, she is also a scientist by
training with a biomedical science degree from the University of
Sheffield and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Oxford. In
2004 she received a Science Communicator's Award from the Pupil
Research Initiative, and has taken part in many activities to improve
the way that science and engineering issues are presented to the public
- including volunteering at the SMC many moons ago!
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Ed Sykes
Press
Officer | | |  Ed was volunteering at the University of
Edinburgh Press Office when the post at the Science Media Centre called
him back to London in February 2008. He is first point of contact for media enquiries and is responsible for the Centre's relationship with external press and PR officers.
Ed studied Zoology in
Sheffield before heading north to do a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at
the University of Edinburgh. Here, despite the joys of wasps and
wonderful fieldwork spent diving in Oman, he began to indulge in a spot
of science communication on the side. Whilst running workshops in
schools, writing a booklet on evolution and training PhD students to be
communicators, he won Famelab's 2007 Vodcast Award for talking about
the sex lives of bedbugs.
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Tom Sheldon
Engineering
Press Officer | | |  Tom joined the Science Media Centre in April
2008 as the dedicated Engineering Press Officer, and handles any issues
in the fields of engineering, technology and the physical sciences that
hit the headlines. He volunteered with the charity Sense About Science
in summer 2007, contributing to their expose of pseudoscience and
blogging for the Guardian along the way. He has degrees in Artificial
Intelligence and Bioinformatics, and one day might finish his thesis on
protein structure prediction. |
Will Greenacre
Science
Information Officer | | |  Will worked as a volunteer at
the Science Media Centre in summer 2007 before starting full
time as Science Information Officer the following September, where he is responsible for maintaining the database of scientific experts and preparing written briefings on news stories as they break. Will graduated from the University of Leicester
in 2005 with a degree in Biological Sciences, and went on to complete a
Master’s degree in Science, Culture and Communication at the University
of Bath where he volunteered at the Press Office and gained experience
in media relations and science writing. |
Simon Levey
Centre
Co-ordinator | | |  Simon joined the Science Media Centre in
October 2005, where he is responsible for the day-to-day logistics of
running the busy office, co-ordinating the fundraising
efforts and finances, managing the volunteering programme and dealing with anything else that comes up.
Graduating
from UCL in 2004 with a degree in Biology, Simon spent a year working at the Grant Museum of Zoology designing interactive learning resources for undergraduates, documenting, maintaining and publicising the collections.
Simon
is an Associate member of the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public
Relations)
and was awarded a Merit in Advanced Certificate in Public Relations in
February 2008.
He
is also a committee member and webmaster for STEMPRA
(the Science Technology Engineering
and Medicine Public Relations Association). |
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