I have been a Trustee for The Oxford Trust for nine years and am also a freelance science writer, author and broadcaster: I wrote the first biography of Britain’s only female Nobel prizewinning scientist, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Previously I have been Editor of Oxford Today magazine, Press Officer for Oxford University, a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Science Now, and a staff editor on New Scientist magazine. As well as The Oxford Trust, I am a Trustee of the Oxfordshire Science Festival and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society.

The Oxford Trust has a key role in the next twenty-five years to act as an independent champion of science and technology for their own sake, as expressions of contemporary culture, and as key disciplines in the economic development of our region. I very much enjoy working collaboratively with fellow Trustees and Trust staff to develop the organisation so that it can continue to deliver exciting projects to people of all ages and backgrounds in our local area and beyond.

My main interest is in digging up stories of scientists from the past, especially women scientists who have been forgotten. Aside from this, I enjoy walking, gardening and sailing. Watching, directing and performing in plays, especially Shakespeare, are also high on the list. I have a husband and two grown-up sons. I live mostly in Oxford and increasingly also near the coast in North Pembrokeshire.