Contributors

Martin Budden: it encourages us to question authority

Martin Budden is a software architect. He has spent most of his working life riding the roller coaster of the microprocessor revolution. As one of the original developers of the Symbian operating system his code is in hundreds of millions... Read More »

Mark Edwards-Jones: A Lesson Plan

Mark Edwards-Jones is a Philosophy graduate now teaching Science at a Pupil Referral Unit in Hertfordshire. He taught Science in Secondary schools for 15 years and is currently improving his Physics credentials on a SASP course at the East of... Read More »

Tim Jones: An Exquisite Corpse of why science is important

Tim Jones is a freelance science communicator with a diverse background in research and business. In 2008, Tim left a senior strategy position in industry to return to his roots and focus fully on sharing his broad interests in science... Read More »

Laura Goodall: because it creates wonderful new opportunities and gives us choices

Laura Goodall is a science communicator with a background in human genetics. She currently works at Science Photo Library and in her spare time she freelances as a science writer. She is also Publications Secretary at the British Science Association’s... Read More »

Nigel Henbest: moving on from gods and demons

Nigel Henbest is an award-winning writer and TV producer, specialising in science and space. A founder of the leading independent television production company Pioneer Productions, his major television credits include the series Body Atlas, Universe, Edge of the Universe and... Read More »

Heather Couper: the driver behind our culture, our mores, and our belief

Heather Couper is an international broadcaster and writer on astronomy, space and science. Although a scientist by training, she has spent the last twenty years working entirely in the media. She has hosted many TV programmes and radio shows -... Read More »

Anna Starkey: it's the process of science that's important

Anna Starkey is a writer, producer and science communicator. With a passion for physics fuelled by an incredible teacher, Frank Close’s Royal Institution Lectures and numerous school trips to CERN, she was inspired to study physics and science communication. Since... Read More »

Matt Thurling: the lies of science communication

Matt Thurling is the founder of science.TV. He studied jazz trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music before becoming involved in digital media. Matt co-developed the ground-breaking online community gorillaz.com and is now based in Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio. I... Read More »

Rob Lyons: to come to better conclusions

Rob Lyons is deputy editor of spiked. His main writing interests are in science, health and environmental issues, including a column - ‘Don’t Panic!’ - that questioned many popular scare stories. Science is simply the human attempt to understand the... Read More »

Joanne Manaster: the raison d'etre of many

Joanne Manaster works as a laboratory teaching specialist and lecturer at the University of Illinois in Urbana. She expresses her passion for science in a unique way at her own website here.... Read More »