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What did the 2007 Media Fellows get up to?
Media Fellows working in the press centre at the 2007 BA Festival of Science
2007's BA Media Fellows wrote copy for print media, websites & blogs and contributed to radio broadcasts & television programmes.  Links below lead to a sample of their work.  Read more in their individual reports.

Tristan Farrow was at the Guardian writing articles on a variety of topics including rare birds, biofuels and chocolate as well as contributing to the Guardian science blog on free speech on the web, personality mapping, biofuels and climate change.

Rehana Jawadwala spent two weeks at the Daily Mirror, followed by two weeks at the Science Media Centre.

Liz Seward wrote a number of articles for the BBC news website on dinosaurs, fossils and
intelligent sensors as well as a couple, within her specialist area of space research, about Jupiter and Uranus.

Michael Wilson had a feature article on slugs published in the Scotsman.

Kirstin Goldring at the Irish Times wrote about a tissue bank and internet security.

Leonora Weil writing for The Times produced articles on a sperm whale skull and images of space.

Mary Muers wrote a number of news items for Nature, including items on dementia, fish, cancer drugs and mutant cells.

Louise Sutton at the Times Higher wrote about the secondment of a historian to the Joint Intelligence Committee and the new chief scientific adviser to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Simon Belt and Claire Witham were immersed in the world of BBC television science, at Horizon and Countryfile respectively.  They both wrote a number of news items for the BA Festival of Science, including articles on nanotechnology, water, biofuels, computers and horse milk.

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"The speed at which the science desk can make podcasts, write stories, then blog about them, let alone research, interview or go into the field to dig out fresh stories, is as astounding as is their encyclopaedic knowledge."

Tristan Farrow, Semiconductor Physicist, University of Cambridge


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