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Spring 2008
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Stempra newsletter
Welcome to our new members Tamsin Starr is communications manager for St George's, the medical and healthcare school affiliated to the University of London. She is responsible for internal and external publications, media relations and events; Camilla Palmer is the public relations officer for the Institute of Psychiatry, part of King's College London. Her responsibilities include media relations, web news, internal communications and public engagement; Emma Gilgunn-Jones is senior press officer in the health press team at Cancer Research UK, responsible for publicising the charity’s anti-tobacco work; Andrew Gould runs a PR consultancy and, as part of that, looks after internal and external communications at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in the South West; Nina Goad is communications manager for the British Association of Dermatologists, promoting aspects of skin disease including research, public health education and political issues. Her role includes running the annual Sun Awareness Week campaign; promoting research due to be published in our journals; and calling for a good service for skin disease patients; Barnaby Smith is press officer at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, a Natural Environment Research Council Centre. He is in charge of media liaison for 500 research scientists who work on environmental issues ranging in scale from genes to global change; Laure Thomas is senior press officer at the Medical Research Council, part of a team promoting the science and researchers that MRC funds; Anne Stanford heads the six-strong press and public relations team at the University of Portsmouth. Their activities include media relations, PR, profile-raising, reputation-building and events; Albena Dimitrova, Sonia Lopez, Patricia Luna and Daniela Pohl are news service managers at the AlphaGalileo Foundation; David Jones is editorial & PR coordinator at the Society of Operations Engineers, a professional membership organisation that represents individuals and companies in the engineering industry over three professional sectors: transport, plant and surveying. David edits/writes a ‘people’ oriented monthly magazine distributed to SOE’s members. He also dons a PR hat when necessary; Helen Jamison and Will Greenacre are the new recruits at the Science Media Centre. Helen covers the SMC’s engineering patch; Will joins as Science Information Officer; Becky Purvis is parliamentary researcher for the office of Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West. Her role includes supporting Evan in all his parliamentary and legislative work, preparing background for speaking engagements, meeting with people on his behalf and being his press officer; Jennifer Marsden, freelance communications consultant; Amy Sanders is the project manager for Darwin 2000, based at the Wellcome Trust in London; Becci Cussens and Emily Smyth are consultants at public relations consultancy Communications Management; Patrick Middleton is the public engagement officer at BBSRC; Laura Dibb is assistant press officer at The Royal Society; Aarathi Prasad works in public liaison at campaign group Sense About Science; Owen Appleton, Richard Moss, Jim Sutton and Terri Telford all work at Proof Communication Ltd, based in London. Simon Wilde
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