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Helen Gavaghan edits Science, People & Poitics (ISSN 1751-598X), which she founded in 2005, and she offers reasonably priced science and tech. editorial support services.
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HELEN WON A PAN EUROPEAN, invited competitive tender to write a History of EUMETSAT (published 2001), the international organisation monitoring the World's climate from space, and won a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (New York) with which she researched and wrote, "Something New Under the Sun, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age" (Published 1998 by Copernicus, New York, a trade imprint of Springer Verlag). The book tells the stories of the pioneers who founded the trillion dollar application satellite industry. It was well reviewed in Nature and New Scientist.
She learned basic journalistic and editorial skills by following NCTJ training with her first editor and on secondment at the London College of Printing.
In September 2005 she founded the bimonthly, Science, People & Politics (ISSN:1751-598X). The magazine is a trienniel series building in bimonthly HTML issues. In 2006, before a short period of bankruptcy, she founded the magazine's owning company, Science, People and Politics Ltd. (Co.No. 05901911).
She has lived and worked in the UK and in the US, in Washington DC. She went freelance in 1991 and has contributed to international publications as diverse as the French weekly for GPs, Le Journale Internationale de Medecine, for which she was US correspondent, Nature, where she was biomedical research policy correspondent in Washington DC on retainer, and New Scientist, where she was on staff for seven years (1984 - 1991). She wrote despatches and provided interviews for the BBC World Service in Washington DC. The World Service sent her on a news and current affairs training course where, in a pre digital age, she learned the perils of splicing tape.
MIT short listed and interviewed her for a Knight Fellowship in science journalism, and the UK National Endowment for Science Technolgy and the Arts (NESTA) shortlisted and interviewed her in 2002 in partnership with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester for a £40 000 award. Though she did not win these awards the process of application and interview was invaluable.
In May 2005 she founded the website www.gavaghancommunications.com, which hosts both her soletradership and Science, People & Politics.
She has a BSc (hons) in biophysics from the University of Leeds (1980), and, for personal reasons explored elsewhere on this website, in March 2004 interrupted her transfer from M.Phil to Ph.D at the CHSTM, University of Manchester, where she was researching and contextualising the work of Sydney Chapman and Lloyd Berkner within the geopolitics of the South Atlantic, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, and the role of Chapman and Berkner in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958.
She is a member of the NUJ (63622) and Association of British Science Writers. |