meet the team About me: After studying natural sciences at Durham University I headed over to Australia to study for a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. During the year we travelled around the country, performing science shows in regional schools. Nowadays, in my spare time I'm a freelance science writer.
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My highlight: I'm torn between chatting to Bill Bryson on the phone, Stuart MacBride's opening quote regarding the extent of his research for his books ("Mostly, I just make s**t up") and going out with the x-change team for a well-earned break! Favourite speaker: Got to be Jim Al-Khalili - such a good sport, and possibly the only man I've seen unbutton his shirt on stage in the name of science equations. Favourite cheese: Camembert Superpower: To be in six places at once
Toby About me: Once I was a simple physics with nuclear astrophysics graduate... Then I got the call from the British Science Association and became an intern working at HQ in swinging London. My job was to coordinate the x-change team and help them out as best I could... I’ve had the most amazing time and I didn’t really want to leave! However, time makes fools of us all and I went off to study for an MSc in Science Communications at UWE in Bristol. My highlight: Seeing the two most famous moustaches in the business in the same place at the same time - Dick Strawbridge and Robert Winston! The whole week was just the most fun though - unbelievably exhausting but brilliant. Favourite speaker: Paddy Regan for being such a sport and Simon Singh for being utterly grand. Favourite cheese: The soft one with garlic and herbs... I’m classy. Superpower: Time travel... So I could be in more than one Festival session at once.