Posts
- Quantum Physics: my new book is about the mind-bending science that’s changing how we understand space, time, matter and reality
- The disappearance of Mary Buckland: writing text for the Breaking Ground exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, featuring original Megalosaurus fossils
- Text-writing for the Royal Shakespeare Company as they co-curate their latest displays with Warwickshire Pride; a local homelessness charity, and the ILEAP activity support group
- Shells, shores and beyond: the dark side of one woman’s pioneering shell collection, as revealed by letters I read in a new English Heritage exhibition
- The Wild Man of Belsay Hall: devising and scripting a trail for this beautiful English Heritage landscape and quarry garden in Northumberland
- Modern Surgery gallery at the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in London: living to tell the tale
- Manifesto for digital inclusion: a ten-point plan to transform cultural institutions. Outcomes of a UK-South Korean collaboration.
- The lost palace of Ad Gefrin: writing about an Anglo-Saxon summer palace where the Northumbrian Golden Age began
- Five forces shaping the exhibitions we make: exploring the lay of the land with the Oxford Museum of Natural History on their recent away day.
- Cracking the Elements: my popular science book explores the hidden stories and unsung pioneers behind the periodic table.
- Dashwood School 1902-2008: a souvenir history – photographs, memories and stories from the archive of Dashwood School Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Interpretation strategy review for the new Chinese Culture Gallery, Manchester Museum, part of the £15 million hello future project.
- Transformation, big ideas and getting outdoors: helping people tell stories to new and bigger audiences through inspiring writing, with projects across the UK, in the US and Singapore
- Everything to Everybody: a radical exhibition about the world’s first public Shakespeare library and its progressive legacy in Birmingham
- Meat The Future: award-winning exhibition about our supersized consumption of meat – and how we could turn our taste to other foods
- Glittering space stories under the dark skies of the North East of England – text-writing and research for a unique space zone in Newcastle’s Centre for Life
- The world’s oldest guitar… a dazzling harpsichord… and a tiny violin that keeps dancers cool. Text-writing for the Royal College of Music’s new museum
- Family interpretation for the Museum of London Docklands – writing to tell vivid stories of people and goods in this historic place
- How can science capital research help museums and science centres change the world? Report on work by the Science Museum Group’s learning team.
- Celebrating women’s history month: you didn’t HAVE to be called William or Henry to achieve scientific success in the past, but it definitely helped.
- Ten years of articles for Engineering & Technology magazine under veteran features editor Vitali Vitaliev.
- Rise of the Machines and Robots: show script for 1001 Inventions at Kuwaiti festival featuring a blend of actors and robots.
- I developed the text strategy and edited text for the largest museum complex in the world – the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait.
- The National Trust commissioned me to write text for Quarry Bank, a key spinning mill of the early industrial revolution, based on their extensive archives.
- I worked with the National Philatelic Museum in Singapore to redevelop their mission and vision as a Children’s Museum.
- I immersed myself in the world of whales to write the text for the Natural History Museum’s recent blockbuster exhibition.
- Secrets from the world’s most famous theatre company: writing text for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s exhibition in Stratford, The Play’s The Thing.
- ‘A must-see exhibition’ – New Scientist: Exceptional fossil evidence reveals the frondy, spongy, leafy nature of the earliest animal life in a new exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, with my text.
- Gallery introduction scripts for the Science Museum Group, with science capital ethos, developed with Radley Yeldar. The Technicians Gallery, and Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries are now available.
- Cracking the Elements – the periodic table
- Glenn Seaborg and Maria Goeppert Mayer
- I retold Whitby Abbey’s legends and myths to help new English Heritage audiences explore this unique location. Hear one of the stories here.
- I retold Whitby Abbey’s legends and myths to help new English Heritage audiences explore this unique location famous for its Dracula links. Hear one of the stories here – the tale of the first English poet.
- Inspiration from the Horniman Museum heritage dye gardens – writing text and planting my own dye bed to make inks.
- Journeys from Alchemy to Chemistry: scripting an interactive science show for the launch of UNESCO’s International Year of the Periodic Table in Paris
- Coal not Dole
- The People’s Museum, Brent
- Cold war, hot science: investigating the discovery of super-heavy elements, and visiting Russia, for the Royal Society’s essay collection on scientific collaborations
- My latest project with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History looks at the enormous role played in our lives by the most minuscule of organisms, bacteria.
- Hidden heroines of the periodic table: my talk based on my book Cracking the Elements
- Look back at the Big Feed festival 2018 in this new video celebrating the hidden food history of Banbury, featuring a science show by me and chemist Andres Tretiakov.
- At KAUST university in Saudi Arabia I spoke to students about the importance of sharing science stories.
- I developed an interpretation strategy and delivered text for the new Postal Museum and Mail Rail in London, telling the story of how the postal service changed Britain.
- At the 2017 Creative Drama Congress in Bursa, Turkey, I trained drama practitioners in science and technology storytelling through hands-on workshops at the Energy Museum
- Content research, interpretation development and text-writing for a new Arabic Sciences Museum in Kuwait.
- Exploring nine centuries of archives at St Barts Hospital to create a timeline mural
- Seeing the light: story-writing for the animated film starring Omar Sharif ‘1001 Inventions and the world of Ibn al-Haytham’
- The dazzling map that changed the world: writing text for an exhibition about William Smith, a ground-breaking Oxfordshire surveyor who made the first geological map of England and Wales.
- Esplora, Malta: text training for the team and visiting the construction site for the first hands-on science centre on the island of Malta
- My interview with Tom Karen, designer of the Marble Run, Chopper bike and other classics, for Engineering and Technology Magazine
- Mildenhall Museum text-writing – 500 years of history under one roof
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe: writer for The Sick of the Fringe project 2016 funded by the Wellcome Trust, and a chance to meet Tez Ilyas and Sofie Hagen
- Arabick Roots: the shared eastern and western origins of today’s hi-tech world explored in an original exhibition at the Royal Society and in Doha
- 1001 Inventions: the enduring legacy of Muslim civilisation published in its third edition by National Geographic
- Paradise gardens: writing about the lost city of Medina Azahara in 9th-century Spain
- Global Pollution: in this book for younger readers I explored pollution through real life incidents and scientist profiles
- Powering Up: are computer games changing our lives? My first book looked at the scientific evidence for how gaming shapes the world
- Guidebook for the Science and Industry Museum: How Manchester invented the modern world
