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John Bohannon

Title: Contributing Correspondent & Visiting Scholar in the Program in Ethics and Health

Organisation: Science Magazine & Harvard University

Biography: John Bohannon is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and writes the multimedia column The Gonzo Scientist (http:

Sessions:

• Workshop: Pimp my podcast: Using multimedia to enhance your reporting
• Workshop: Pimp my podcast: Using multimedia to enhance your reporting
• Podcasting production workshop and Science Museum Antenna Gallery multimedia consultation

Lyndal Byford

Title: Media Manager

Organisation: Australian Science Media Centre

Biography: After completing an Honours degree in Biotechnology, Lyndal joined the Shell Questacon Science Circus and promoted science throughout regional Australia. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Science Communication and has over 8 years experience in communicating science in a range of settings including science museums, within the pharmaceutical industry and in the media. Moving to the UK in 2005, Lyndal co-ordinated the education programs at the Grant Museum of Zoology before joining the UK Science Media Centre as engineering press officer. She returned to Australia in November 2007 to take up the Media Manager role at the Australian Science Media Centre.

Session:

• Great talent, but are they credible?

Peter Calamai

Title: Consultant

Organisation: Canada Foundation for Innovation

Biography: After 15 years as a staff science reporter for Canadian daily newspapers Peter Calamai now writes a weekly science column for the Toronto Star and freelances magazine science articles. A contributing editor of Australia’s Cosmos magazine, Calamai is a member of the steering committee of the Science Media Centre of Canada. A founding member of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, he is also is a three times winner of Canada's highest journalistic honour, the National Newspaper Award, and an adjunct research professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa. Calamai graduated with a B.Sc. in Physics from McMaster University in 1965 and worked as a correspondent and editor with the Southam company for 30 years, with postings to Ottawa, London (U.K.), Nairobi and Washington. His quasi-scientific pursuits include conchology with specialization in the cowry (Cyprae), ornithology, astronomy and the genetic engineering of tomatoes. April, 2009

Sessions:

• Different strokes for different science folk
• How to start up a science media centre.. and keep it running in top gear

Julie Clayton

Title: Co-Director

Organisation: WCSJ2009

Biography: Julie Clayton is a Bristol-based science journalist, writer, editor and trainer. She specialises in biomedical science, and has worked for various print and online publications, including Nature, New Scientist, Science, and the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net). Since 2003 Julie has organised international science journalism training workshops in Africa and Asia for SciDevNet and the World Federation of Science Journalists. In 2007, Julie helped win the bid, together with Pallab Ghosh (BBC) and Philip Campbell (Nature), for the UK to host the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London.

Sessions:

• How top philanthropists are accelerating science
• Science based policy making: Advising Government

Zoe Dunford

Title: Media Manager

Organisation: John Innes Centre and Institute of Food Research

Biography: Zoe is the science writer and media manager for the John Innes Centre, Institute of Food Research and The Sainsbury Laboratory. She also writes a column for a boating magazine and freelances for other sea-going publications. She joined the Institute of Food Research in 2002 after a stint as science communications officer at the University of East Anglia. This followed a first career researching and producing wildlife films for Survival Anglia, Oxford Scientific Films and the BBC Natural History Unit among others.

Session:

• Recipe for disaster: A growing population and climate change. Can science serve up a solution?

James Fahn

Title: Journalist and Executive Director

Organisation: Internews' Earth Journalism Network

Biography: James Fahn is the Executive Director of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN), which aims to improve the quantity and quality of environmental coverage around the world. James previously worked for nearly a decade as the environment editor of The Nation, a Bangkok-based, English-language daily newspaper. He has also written articles for The Economist, Jakarta Post, and Newsweek, published a book entitled, A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom, hosted an environmental feature program on Thai TV, and served as a program associate with the Ford Foundation. James is a recipient of the UN Environment Program’s Global 500 award and was pinned by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn for service to the Kingdom of Thailand.

Session:

• Reporting about climate change

Fiona Fox

Title: Director

Organisation: Science Media Centre, UK

Biography: Fiona Fox has a degree in journalism and 20 years of experience in working in media relations for high profile national organisations. Her career includes stints working for the Equal Opportunities Committee, National Council for One Parent Families, and CAFOD (a leading aid agency). Despite having no background in science, Fiona managed to persuade a distinguished panel of eminent scientists to take a risk and appoint her to become the founding Director of the Science Media Centre which opened in April 2002. The main remit of the Centre is to help restore public trust in science by persuading more scientists to engage more effectively with the big controversial science stories that hit the headlines. The Centre has grown from strength to strength - with a database of over 2000 scientists which is used by all sections of the national news media. The Science Media Centre has earned huge praise and respect from those who use its services and was the subject of a glowing Editorial in Nature magazine which paid tribute to the 'robust leadership' of its Director.

Sessions:

• Flat Earth News
• The Big debate: Is the British media the best or worst in the world at covering science?
• The science controversy that broke the mould: The media battle for human/animal embryos
• Embargoes in science reporting: Friend or foe?

Andrew Jack

Title: Pharmaceuticals Correspondent

Organisation: The Financial Times

Biography: Andrew Jack has been as a journalist for the Financial Times since 1990. He currently writes about health and pharmaceuticals, based in London. He was the paper’s Moscow correspondent and then bureau chief in 1998-2004, and previously Paris correspondent, financial correspondent, general reporter and corporate reporter. He is author most recently of Inside Putin’s Russia (Granta, London 2005; Oxford University Press, New York, 2005; All, Bucharest, 2007) and The French Exception (Profile, London 2001; Editions Odile Jacob, Paris 2000). He was awarded a Kaiser Family Foundation mini-fellowship in global health reporting in 2008. He has also received the Grand prix de l’association des anciens élèves du centre des hautes etudes d’assurances, the ACCA accountancy journalist of the year award, and was a member of an FT team winning the British press awards. A geography graduate from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, he was the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, a New York City Government Urban Fellow, and worked as a consultant and freelance journalist. He is a trustee of Pushkin House, a London-based centre for Russian culture. He has written articles for medical journals including the BMJ and the Lancet, and specialist reports on the French Insurance Industry, Audit Committees, Networking and Work Shadowing; as well as chapters in books on Russia, ethics and financial reporting.

Session:

• An AIDS vaccine: Mission impossible?

Natasha Loder

Title: Science and Technology Correspondent

Organisation: The Economist

Biography: Natasha Loder has been Science and Technology Correspondent at The Economist since September 2000. She writes across a wide range of subjects in science, technology, medicine and the environment, but has a particular focus on stories about space, oceans, ecosystem payments, and conservation. She writes for all sections of The Economist, although most regularly for Science. She is also a regular writer of the Economist’s green.view column. Her freelance work includes articles for consumer title Intelligent Life, as well as Prospect and US title, Conservation. Prior to joining The Economist she worked as a news reporter for the journal Nature, where she covered the Anderson affair. Prior to joining Nature she worked at the Times Higher Education Supplement, and also as a freelance earning credits on a wide range of national newspapers and magazines. In 2004 she was given an award for Outstanding Journalism for an article about aquaculture. From June 2009, she will be the chair of the Association of British Science Writers.

Sessions:

• ABSW's How to publish a popular science book
• Editors discuss the future of science journalism

Colin Macilwain

Title: Editor

Organisation: ResearchResearch

Biography: Colin Macilwain is currently editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe, two London-based research policy newsletters. For fourteen years until 2007, he worked for Nature, covering Washington DC as a correspondent and then serving as news editor. An engineer by training, he has covered a broad range of international science policy issues, ranging from research misconduct and university governance to nuclear weapons proliferation and genetically-modified crops.

Session:

• A picture of health? Who shapes public opinion on pharma?

Ehsan Masood

Title: Acting Chief Commissioning Editor

Organisation: Nature

Session:

• Balance not needed? Science journalism and the reporting of creationism

Peter McIntyre

Title: Journalist

Organisation: Cancer World magazine

Biography: Peter McIntyre is an experienced health journalist and trainer who has conducted training and mentoring sessions on reporting on cancer, and planned and delivered training courses on a variety of topics. He was a newspaper staff journalist in the UK for 25 years, and was for five years, health and social services correspondent of the Oxford Mail and Times. He writes regularly for Cancer World, interviewing leading experts in oncology and reporting on quality of life issues as they affect cancer patients and survivors. He has worked with journalists from all over the world to explore the challenges of reporting on cancer and look at ways in which the media can help tackle the widespread stigma and myths that surround the disease. Peter believes that training for journalists begins by respecting and building on their sense of professionalism. He seeks to develop a dialogue, to build confidence and to arm them with key information and contacts, but not to preach or try to dictate what they should write or broadcast.

Session:

• Informing attitudes and beliefs about cancer

Lisa Melton

Title: News Editor

Organisation: Nature Biotechnology

Biography: Lisa Melton is Nature Biotechnology’s news editor and is, of course, obsessed by all things biotech. But she previously spent seven years at the Novartis Foundation in London reporting on biomedical topics and, prior to that, writing for the Welcome Trust. Her stories have been published in BBC Focus, Nature, New Scientist, The Times, and Scientific American. She is guest lecturer at the University of West England's MSC in Science Communication course. Lisa has a PhD in immunology, and adores opera.

Session:

• Pitfalls of reporting about clinical trials

James Painter

Title: Latin America analyst

Organisation: BBC World Service

Biography: James Painter is currently Latin America analyst at the BBC World Service and a Senior Advsior at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. From 2003 to 2005, he was Executive Editor Americas at the BBC World Service and prior to that, from 1997 to 2003, he was Head of the BBC Spanish American Service. He has held several different jobs connected with Latin America, including two years lecturing in Latin American Government and Politics at the London School of Economics from 1982 to 1984. He is the author of several books and academic articles on the region. In recent years he has written widely for several publications including the BBC website on issues related to climate change. He has also studied the coverage of climate change in the Latin American media, and written widely on the topic.

Session:

• A drought or a flood? Climate change reporting around the world

Don Powell

Title: Press Officer

Organisation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Biography: Working his way through complexity – in so many ways – Don studied biology of viruses, the fruitfly Drosophila, and mouse in the US and UK before retiring his pipette in the mid-1990s. Taking up pencils, crayons and overhead sheets, he talked about and discussed biology, developed websites and worked with schools and the media. He joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as Press and PR Officer in January 2000, just as ‘genomes’ were coming to a lively, rolling boil. Whether he has stirred the pot, fanned the flames or tempered the dish is undetermined.

Session:

• Human disease genetics and emerging infectious diseases

Tim Radford

Title: Freelance

Biography: Tim Radford was born in New Zealand in 1940, joined the New Zealand Herald in 1957, moved to the United Kindom in 1961 and worked in weekly, evening and daily newspapers almost all his life. He spent 32 years with the Guardian in London, as letters editor, arts editor, literary editor and science editor. He is an honorary fellow of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and he has won five awards from the Association of British Science Writers, including a lifetime achievement award. He has also written for the Lancet, the New Scientist, the London Review of Books and many other journals.

Session:

• Strife at the top: Lord May of Oxford in conversation with Tim Radford

Kathy Redmond

Organisation: European School of Oncology

Biography: Lugano-based Kathy Redmond has been editor of the European School of Oncology’s magazine Cancer World since 2004 and also works as the co-ordinator of the School’s media programme. She is a cancer nurse who has served as President of the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) and as a Board member of numerous European and International organisations. She was awarded the EONS Distinguished Merit Award as well as honorary membership of the Society In recognition of her contribution to the development of cancer nursing in Europe. In more recent years she played a pivotal role in the establishment of the European Cancer Patient Coalition and has represented the School on the Board of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). She was responsible for drafting the 2008 edition of the World Cancer Declaration on behalf of the UICC.

Session:

• Reporting cancer breakthroughs: Striking the right note

Sallie Robins

Title: Co-Director

Organisation: WCSJ2009

Biography: Sallie leads a double life as both a science publicist and a fitness instructor. After some disastrous practical exams during her BSc in Medical Biochemistry, Sallie realised that bench research might not be her forte, so after an MSc in Science Communication Sallie cut her teeth in public relations at the then British Association for Science (now the British Science Association) running the press office at the annual media jamboree that is the Festival of Science. Prior to working in public relations Sallie researched, wrote and promoted science and public health policy at the British Medical Association, writing reports on boxing, alcohol, the age of consent, cycling and other public health issues. For many years now Sallie has worked freelance initially as publicist to many popular science authors including Richard Dawkins and Martin Rees, but more recently with a variety of organisations including the Royal Society, the Science Museum, the Cheltenham Science Festival and the Big Bang. Sallie’s work in books has also seen her diversify into publicity work for children’s books and children’s poetry. Sallie lives in London with her partner and her son aged 9.

Sessions:

• New media, new journalism?
• Science based policy making: Advising Government

Cristine Russell

Title: President

Organisation: Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

Biography: Cristine Russell is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about science, health and the environment for more than three decades. She is a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was a spring 2006 fellow at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Russell is the president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a group of American journalists and scientists dedicated to improving science communication to the public. She is a past president of the U.S. National Association of Science Writers. She is also a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Russell is a former national science reporter for The Washington Post and The Washington Star and appeared on PBS’ Washington Week in Review. She is an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Sessions:

• Science journalism in crisis?
• Climate change coverage: The messy marriage of science, policy, and politics

Kaianders Sempler

Title: Editor

Organisation: Ny Teknik

Biography: Kaianders Sempler, born 1946 in New York, has for the last 15 years been staff editor and illustrator for the Swedish technology news weekly magazine Ny Teknik. He has a background in architecture, mathematics and oceanography. Nowadays he mostly writes about the history of science and technology, mathematics and space. In his spare time he plays tenor saxophone and trumpet in the Swedish cover band Martha and the Cadillacs.

Session:

• Promises, promises: The Ethics of unbridled optimism

Mike Shanahan

Title: Press Officer

Organisation: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Biography: Mike Shanahan is the senior press officer at the International Institute for Environment and Development and the former news editor of the SciDev.Net news agency. He is a founder member of the Climate Change Media Partnership, which aims to improve coverage of climate change in developing countries, and is the founder of the Research and Media Network. He has a doctorate in tropical rainforest ecology.

Sessions:

• A drought or a flood? Climate change reporting around the world
• Reporting about climate change

Laura Smillie

Title: Communications Manager

Organisation: European Food Information Council (EUFIC)

Biography: Laura Smillie joined the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) in 2005 as Communications Manager. Having successfully completed a Masters in European Communications, specialising in cultural diversity, Laura spent 2 years heading up internal and external communications for the international business services firm Deloitte. Thereafter, she worked for 5 years as a senior communications consultant for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. In addition to her experience in the fields of risk communications, media relations and stakeholder management, Laura brings valuable knowledge of pan-European public awareness raising campaigns to the EUFIC team, following her extensive work with the European Commission. Together with King’s College she has developed a model for optimizing the communication of scientific risk uncertainty. Laura is Chair of the Crisis & Risk Communications Working Group of the European Association of Communication Directors.

Session:

• Food: The good, the bad and the misreported

Richard Stone

Title: Asia Editor

Organisation: Science Magazine

Biography: Richard Stone is Asia News Editor of Science, the international weekly magazine. Stone has reported on non-proliferation and environmental issues from some of the most forbidding corners of the world, including North Korea and Iran. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in Kazakhstan, conducting an in-depth study of the legacy of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and now lives in Beijing. In addition to his work for Science, Stone has written for National Geographic, Discover, and Smithsonian magazines and is the author of “Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant” (Perseus, 2001).

Session:

• Covering a disaster from Sichuan to Sri Lanka

Jacqui Thornton

Title: Freelance

Biography: Jacqui Thornton is a medical journalist with 18 years experience, working as health editor of the Sun 2000-2007 and health correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph 1998-2000. In 2007 she set up her own company, providing specialist consultancy and media training to clinicians, medical charities, pharmaceutical companies and scientists such as Professor Athene Donald, winner of the European 'laureate' For Women In Science. She also chairs science communication events, most recently at the Royal Institution. Jacqui still freelances for national newspapers and magazines including the Times, the Observer and Cosmopolitan on health issues. She was shortlisted for Freelance Health Journalist of the Year 2008 by the Medical Journalists' Association. She is a member of the Department of Health's Organ Donation Taskforce (Communications sub-group) and an associate non-executive director of Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust.

Session:

• Does science need to be highbrow?

John Travis

Title: European News Editor

Organisation: Science

Biography: John Travis is the European News Editor for Science magazine and is based in Cambridge, U.K. After graduating from Boston University’s graduate science journalism program, he became Science’s New England correspondent for several years, before moving to Science News, where he covered basic biology and biomedical research for nearly a decade. In 2005, he became Deputy News Editor at Science, coordinating its biology coverage. He took his current position in 2007.

Session:

• Advocacy science journalism

Jon Turney

Title: Freelance Writer

Organisation: Department of Science and Technology Studies

Biography: Science writer, editor, lecturer Formerly, science editor, Times Higher Education; Senior lecturer, UCL; editorial director, Penguin Press. Author The Rough Guide to Genetics (2007) The Rough Guide to the Future (2010) http:

Session:

• Blogs, big physics and breaking news

Anna Wagstaff

Title: Assistant Editor

Organisation: Cancer World magazine

Biography: Anna Wagstaff is assistant editor of Cancer World magazine. She has a special interest in how industry, academic researchers, patient groups and regulatory bodies relate to one another and how this affects the rate at which cancer patients see real benefit from scientific progress. Anna believes that, in this complex field with powerful vested interests, good journalism is vital to stand up for the public interest. She is committed helping equip journalists to report effectively on the scientific, clinical, organisational and policy issues involved in improving the care of cancer patients, and has helped organise and conduct media forums and training initiatives for journalists across Europe and in the Arab World.

Session:

• Informing attitudes and beliefs about cancer

Bob Ward

Title: Policy and Communications Director

Organisation: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

Session:

• Climate change: Gearing up for Copenhagen

Jeremy Webb

Title: Editor in Chief

Organisation: New Scientist

Biography: Jeremy Webb is Editor-in-Chief of New Scientist, with responsibility for both the magazine and website. He has worked in a variety of roles on the magazine, including eight years as Editor. Before joining New Scientist, Jeremy was an editor and reporter for British Medical Television and for Pulse, a UK newspaper for family doctors. His media career began in the BBC where he worked as a sound engineer and producer of radio programmes. He has a BSc (Hon) in physics with solid state electronics from the University of Exeter.

Session:

• The death of science magazines: Real or exaggerated?