Media and public engagement

I’ve written two popular science books  and I regularly write freelance science features, having worked recently with All About Space, BBC Focus and The New Scientist. I’m also a science host for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular StarTalk radio podcast series and regularly appear as a guest.

BBC Expert Women 2013

In 2013 I attended the BBC Academy Training Day for Female Experts. This was a pan-industry event to search for new women experts for television, radio and online broadcast. I was one of thirty specialists chosen to attend the day which involved gaining experience presenting to camera, being interviewed on television and being part of a radio discussion. You can read my report about the day on my blog here. Podcasts, including my own, from all the women experts who attended the course are available on the BBC Expert Women YouTube Channel.

Guardian science media fellow 2013

I was chosen as one of the 2013 Media Fellows with the British Science Association. I completed my placement with The Guardian newspaper science and environment team in London in July 2013. On this placement I learnt how to write science news stories in the general press, figuring out how to condense complex information and present it in a clear way. You can see updates about this in my blog with links to all the stories and podcasts I was involved with, and some of my stories are available in this link.

Specialist areas

Solar system space science (comets, asteroids, planets) and space missions (such as NASA Stardust, ESA Rosetta, NASA OSIRIS-REx, JAXA Hayabusa), space volcanoes.

 

Writing (some highlights)

 

Television interviews

 

YouTube (see my YouTube channel for more)

 

Podcasting and radio (see my dedicated podcasting page for more)

 

Newspaper/magazine interviews