Autumn 2007

From the Chair

New members

Sci Comm news

Eurochat

Feature: When good PR becomes bad science

Feature: Do engineers need a face lift?

Event Report: Out of the listings and into the news

Event Report: Radiation in the news

Interview: John Davidson, Medical Research Council's Chief Press Officer

Stempra newsletter

Welcome to our new members

On behalf of the committee I'd like to say welcome (or welcome back) to the following new members who have signed up since the beginning of August:

Josie Gray , press officer at the Prostate Cancer Charity; Annabel Cook, science engagement and communications officer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford; Steve Palmer, head of press at Cancer Research UK; Geethani Piyasena, communications officer at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust; Candice Macdonald, senior account executive for Republic PR; Gemma Howe, press secretary at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Leighton Kitson, media relations officer for Durham University; Gareth Jenkins, press and communications officer, The Dairy Council; Claire Wilkinson, recruitment officer at the University of Sheffield; Joseph Winters, press officer for the Institute of Physics; and Jo Kelly and Clare Elsley who are directors at Campuspr Ltd based in Leeds.

Simon Wilde
Stempra Secretary
and Medical Research Council

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