Fiona Fox
Fiona Fox trained as a journalist before starting a career in media relations working for high-profile national organizations such as the Equal Opportunities Committee, the National Council for One Parent Families, and CAFOD (a leading aid agency). In 2001 she was appointed founding director of London’s Science Media Centre for the promotion of informed science in the media. In 2014 she was awarded an OBE for her services to science, was the only representative of science to appear in person at the 2011/12 Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. She has honorary fellowships from the UK’s Royal Society of Biology, the British Pharmacological Society and the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences, and has won several awards for her achievements including an Understanding Animal Research Award for promoting openness in animal research and a European College of Neuropsychopharmacology award for communicating mental health research. In 2019 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol.
Fox runs a blog on science and the media which is widely read by scientists and often speaks on the issue at scientific meetings and science and literary festivals. She writes regularly for science publications and occasionally for national newspapers. In 2019, she took part in a BBC Radio 4 special on public engagement in science presented by Richard Dawkins and a special television documentary on ‘Climategate’ broadcast on BBC 4 for the tenth anniversary of the scandal.
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