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Summer 2008


From the Chair

New members

Sci Comm news

Eurochat

Feature: Publicising non peer-reviewed science

Feature: New media, new opportunities

Feature: Spinning science

Event Report: Science and the embargo

Event Report: Podcasting and new media

Interview: Emma Morton, The Sun

 

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 January:

Eleanor Barrie, freelance science communicator at the European Dana Alliance for the Brain; Jennifer Beal, public relations associate at John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Jonathan Breckon, head of public affairs at the Royal Geographical Society; Jo Brodie, senior science information officer at Diabetes UK; Hester Brown, press officer at the University of Greenwich; Jon Cartwright, reporter, Physics World; Giulia Civello, public programme co-ordinator at The Royal Institution; Anna Clarke, science information officer at the RDS; Joseph Corin, press officer at the British Heart Foundation; Gaenor Cowles, communications executive at CABI; Louise Dalziel, director of Matchless Content; Emma Darling, public relations officer at Cardiff University; Nick Dickens, genome biologist at the Institute of Cancer Research; Rebecca Dixon and Jennie Evans at the Society for Endocrinology; Zoe Dunford, media relations officer for Norwich BioScience Institutes; Mike Findlay and Martha Henson at the Wellcome Trust; Sarah Fletcher and Laura Holland at Diamond Light Source; Sharon Gage, managing director at SRG Project Management Ltd; Kate Groves, PR manager at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Chloe Harkness, principal science education officer at the Royal Horticultural Society; Yasmin Hilmi and Natalie Ireland, Festival of Science officers at The BA; Anna Hogrebe, communications executive at Elsevier; Alan Hughes, communications manager at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Eluned Hughes, Louise Soler and Amy Unsworth from Breakthrough Breast Cancer; Catherine Johns, acting head of Netpark development at the County Durham Development Company; Hannah Johnson, media relations officer at the University of Bristol; Emma Kilvert and Vickie Woodward a the University of Wolverhampton; Christiane Losert-Valiente Kroon, student at University College London; Sophie Langride, press and PR officer at Asthma UK; Cath Letton, marketing & PR manager at Techniquest; Jen Middleton at Nature Publishing Group; Harriet Millward, director of marketing & PR at the Alzheimer's Research Trust; Kate Moore, public relations officer at King's College London; Ed Nash, press and PR officer at the University of Edinburgh; Laura Nelson, writer at the Medical Research Council; Carol Phillips, vice president of IFST; Emma Potter, Kaizo; Emma Rees, marketing & project co-ordinator at Swansea University; Laura Rodriguez, news service manager at Alphagalileo; Lindsay Shaw Greening, festival co-ordinator at the Milton Keynes Science Festival; Anne Stanford, Kate Daniell and Lisa Egan, press officers at the University of Portsmouth; Ed Sykes, press officer at the Science Media Centre; Andrea Ttofa and Jill Davis at the Parkinson's Disease Society; Melanie Tyler, marketing & PR director at Tiger Two Limited; Rebecca Walton, publications assistant at Public Library of Science; Bob Ward, director, Global Science Networks at Risk Management Solutions; Joanna Watchman, director, IMS Marketing Communications Group PLC; Tim Watson, communications manager at NC3Rs; Robin Wilkinson at Proof Communication Ltd; Nancy Williams, managing director at Tiger Two; and Georgina Lavender, Alison Whyte, Hayley Birch and Jane Feinmann, who are all freelancers.

Simon Wilde
Stempra Secretary
and External Affairs Manager, Medical Research Council
simonw@stempra.org.uk

 

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