NUJ Freelance Directory

I have written some items for the general press, many for the general science consumer press, science academic press and medical press internationally, as well as for online outlets and specialist audiences, doing a smattering of broadcasting for the BBC World Service from Washington DC.

In 2005/06 I had an opportunity to work with modern electronic production methods in house at Bush House and made a mini package. I had time to practice some broadcasting within a studio, and it was a good second half to the half a training course in house in 1995-1996 I took in the days of scalpel cut and paste production. That course was sponsored by news and current affairs. In 2007 BBC 3 interviewed me for camera at Jodrell Bank and screened a history of satellites to which I contributed the US perspective, as an author of an original work on this topic. The screened story for a British audience told mainly the UK story, but a short clip of me did appear.

I am also a science writer. The human story of science is in the bibliography and in the methods section of the published literature. Masking that content would be dangerous censorship.

Formally, at University level as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate (click on the My Research link on my home page) and by on going and current practice I am well qualified to extract stories from the scientific literature.

Science writing is of value in a piece of journalism, in public relations and in creative work from art to literature. I use science and technology concepts in art/illustration, and in poetry, which I have written - badly.

I am available for freelance work in support of PR if you are certain the task you want to employ me for is not going to be a matter of current legal proceedings.

I would do science writing on staff in support of PR, or as PR, for contentious subjects, but would need the security and legal protections of full time employment for contentious work.  

I would undertake journalism in a full-time, part-time or a freelance capacity without any qualms.

In addition to work for consumer press and the science press and medical press I have worked in trade and tech. and business-to-business, on staffs, when living and working in London, and in all capacities between junior reporter/assistant editor to the editor of a weekly with daily electronic output.

I am quite happy to travel to or live in London or move to any other major city for work, and have done so in the past, and will be participating as an editor and journalist in May 2010 in a stem cell conference in Toronto.

Currently I edit Science, People & Politics (ISSN 1751-598X). I opened a facebook business page for the magazine on 25th April 2010 and have started a discussion about the ethics of stem cell research. If you have any views you are willing to make public on facebook, I would be pleased to see these appear on that page.