In the media
The news is in my veins because my parents and grandparents were journalists.
As Faculty Communications Manager for Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, I oversee our media relations strategy, plans and delivery. Here are some example successes. Many of these were delivered in partnerships both in the UK and overseas:
- 2 morning headlines on the BBC Radio Four Today programme; and an interview with a leading AI researcher on New Year's Day (at 39:51).
- Expert commentary on Google's GraphCast and co-scientist, the UK's net zero strategy, the UAE's practice of gas flaring, and more.
- 841 pieces of coverage of an ocean under Saturn's moon Mimas (featured on Apple Top news).
-719 pieces of coverage of a biodiversity monitoring breakthrough (it's definitely peak science news when the world's top two science journals Science and Nature cover it).
-1 academic achieving the third highest attention score ever across all of leading publisher Taylor & Francis' journals for this research (léelo en español).
- Extensive trade press coverage of the first study to measure emissions on LNG carriers.
- Beautiful coverage of the origins of baobab trees (see also e.g. Publico, The Hindu; we especially love that the researchers included a husband and wife couple).
- Other viral stories on subjects including a new method to detect aliens (see also e.g. Gizmodo, Wired, Futurism and the Indian Express); pop melodies becoming less complex (also in e.g. the NYT, and NPR) using a third robotic arm, and fantasy football being bad for mental health (also everywhere from GRM Daily to the American Heart Association!).
- And last but definitely not least: over 2000 pieces of coverage of research changing the way we think about bees. The BBC compared the lead researcher to Galileo – and referenced the introdution to our video!