Sandy Starr is Communications Officer at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and Webmaster of its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. Together with Sarah Norcross he organises PET's public engagement events, and he works with Face to Face and Ultimate Database developing the current PET and BioNews websites. He also devised the PET project Spectrum of Opinion: Genes, Autism and Psychological Spectrum Disorders, and oversaw the creation of a School Resource Pack as part of this project. He originally studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and subsequently joined the founding editorial team of the current affairs publication spiked.

Sandy has consulted and spoken on technology and regulation for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Commission research project RightsWatch; spent several years writing weekly film reviews for The Sun newspaper's TV Mag; and has contributed to periodicals including the Architects' Journal, Arts Education Policy Review, Economic Affairs, Hindu, Municipal Journal, New Humanist, openDemocracy, Tech Central Station, Times Literary Supplement and The Works (magazine of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors). He has contributed chapters to books including Crime and Deviance in Cyberspace (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA) and Hate Crimes (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).