Dr Rebecca Hill

<p><span class="text"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr Rebecca Hill</span> was formerly Genetics Editor at <span style="font-weight: bold;">BioNews</span> and at the charity that publishes it, the <a href="http://www.progress.org.uk/" target="blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Progress Educational Trust</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">PET</span>)</a>. She is a reporter at <a href="http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=16&amp;Itemid=16" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Research Fortnight</span></a> and <a href="http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=17&amp;Itemid=17" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Research Europe</span></a>, both of which are published by <a href="http://www.researchresearch.com/" target="blank">Research Research</a> and cover news, analysis, funding opportunities and jobs for researchers and policymakers. She is also a freelance journalist specialising in science, and has written for the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Guardian</span></a> and <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Times</span></a> newspapers, the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html" target="blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Nature</span></a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.newscientist.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">New Scientist</span></a> magazine's <a target="blank" href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/">CultureLab</a> and the <a target="blank" href="http://www.scidev.net/en/">Science and Development Network</a>. She is cofounder of <a href="http://www.sciencebrainwaves.com/" target="blank">Science Brainwaves</a> (part of the <a href="http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/" target="blank">British Science Association</a>), and she has been a judge at the <a href="http://regional.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nsec/" target="blank">National Science and Engineering Competition</a> at the <a href="http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/home.cfm" target="blank">Big Bang Young Scientists and Engineers Fair</a>. Previously, she studied <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/research/b-and-g" target="blank">Biochemistry and Genetics</a> at the <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/" target="blank">University of Sheffield</a>, where she went on to obtain a <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/mbb/prospectivepg/res-themes-phd" target="blank">PhD</a> in <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb" target="blank">Structural and Molecular Biology</a>, and where her research focused on producing a system to purify and analyse groups of proteins in baker's yeast. She also has an <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/study/courses/arts/science-journalism.html" target="blank">MA in Science Journalism</a> from <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/" target="blank">City University London</a>, and she has a particular interest in audio production, having produced audio packages for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Guardian</span>'s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/science" target="blank">Science Weekly</a> podcast. She has interned at the <a href="http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/" target="blank">Science Media Centre</a> and <a href="http://www.senseaboutscience.org/" target="blank">Sense About Science</a>, and she has been a pie taster on the <a href="http://www.hollandspies.co.uk/join-our-family/the-pie-panel/meet-the-pie-panel" target="blank">Pie Panel</a> at <a href="http://www.hollandspies.co.uk/" target="blank">Holland's Pies</a>. She tweets as <a href="https://twitter.com/BekiHill" target="blank">@BekiHill</a></span></p>