Stories
I have the news in my veins because my parents and grandparents were journalists. I also took an MA in International Journalism (after completing my PhD in literature and psychoanalysis).
As Faculty Communications Manager for Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, I introduced a strategic plan that has produced media successes including:
- 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).
- 841 pieces of coverage of an ocean under Saturn's moon Mimas.
-719 pieces of coverage of a biodiversity monitoring breakthrough.
-1 academic achieving the third highest attention score ever across all of leading publisher Taylor & Francis' journals for this research.
- Extensive trade press coverage of the first study to measure emissions on LNG carriers.
- Key expert commentary on the UK's net zero strategy the UAE's practice of gas flaring, and more.
- Other stories including musical tastes reveal your moral compass, using a third robotic arm, and a new technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells.
- 2000 pieces of coverage of research changing the way we think about bees:
I'm also really excited by and looking for ways to cover all the amazing research stories that wouldn't be considered 'news' by the mainstream media, but do have really interested audiences. This series that I asked our Faculty Communications Officer to put together on LinkedIn on our green energy researchers, for example, has been really successful in directly engaging our target audiences.