Book Review: The Geek Manifesto - Why Science Matters
This book is explicitly a call to arms and sets out to 'explore how geeks can turn our irrepressible energy and analytical rigour into a movement with real clout'...
Fiona Fox
Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre
Fiona Fox is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), where she was previously Chair of Trustees. She is Founder and Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre (SMC), a charity which promotes voices and views from the scientific community to the news media. Previously, she worked in media relations for organisations including the Equal Opportunities Commission (now subsumed into the Equality and Human Rights Commission), the National Council for One Parent Families (now subsumed into Gingerbread) and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. She has been awarded an OBE'for services to science', and she has contributed chapters to the books Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions and Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics.
BioNews Articles by Fiona Fox
Scientists, hybrid embryos and the media
Should scientists enter the media fray on the most controversial aspects of stem cell research when the row is clearly about much more than the science? This is a question that many in the scientific community have raised over the past year in relation to the furore over human-animal hybrid...
