ARTICLES AND BROADCASTING
Broadcasting:
To hear my appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Midweek' with Libby
Purves in 2005 please click here.
To watch the video interviews of researchers I conducted for
the
Myrovlytis Trust in 2010 and 2011 please click on the name of the
interviewee:
Professor
Eamonn
R. Maher,
Dr
Andy
Tee,
Dr
Richard
Harbottle,
Dr
Ferenc
Mueller,
Dr
Ravi
Nookala
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Click here
to listen to some
snippets from my 1998 science slots with Bill Buckley (pictured with me
here) on his afternoon show on BBC Southern Counties Radio.
Copyright BBC www.bbc.co.uk/england/southerncounties/index.shtml

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Bill and I at the launch celebration for
'Understanding Solid State Physics' in February 2010.
Copyright: Sharon Ann
Holgate.
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To read more about
my BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Indian Particle Man' please click
here. This page also includes information about the subject of the
programme Prof S.N.Bose.
Articles:
In 2009 I began writing for E&T (Engineering and Technology), the
members magazine of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET). My articles can be viewed online by clicking on their respective
titles.
New
dawn
for
photonics
investment
All
aboard
Tornado:
engineering
a new steam locomotive
Tornado
steam
locomotive
embraces
microelectronics
Home
help
Towards
a
less
claustrophobic
scanning
Book
review of The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
A selection of the scientist profiles I wrote throughout
2007 for the
Institute of Physics Interactions newspaper can be found by
clicking on the following links:
Steve
Keevil, Dec 2006;
John
Hassard, Feb 2007;
Jim
Al-Khalili, Mar 2007;
Pete
Vukusic, Apr 2007;
I
also wrote an article for Interactions about my visit to sculptor
Antony Gormley's exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London in 2007.
Please click here
to read it.
To read a selection of my news
stories from The Times Higher Education Supplement, please click
here.
Several of my New Scientist
articles are available online (in full to New Scientist subscribers and
in part to non-subscribers). Please visit my CV page
and page down to find direct links to these articles from the relevant
entries in my CV.
To read some of my features for Physics World,
please
click
here.
For something lighthearted, you may wish to read "Physics and the
single girl", which was published in Physics World in November 1995,
and was my first ever magazine article. It is reproduced in the 'A Bit of Fun' section of this website.
Finally, there is an excerpt
from
my
review of the book 'Physics in the 20th Century' by Curt
Suplee that I wrote for New Scientist ("The point of physics", New
Scientist, 10/4/99) reproduced on the Amazon online bookstore site.
Brochures and PR work:
If you are interested in reading the 'Spotlight'
brochures on 'Electronic Technology for Independent Living', 'PET/CT
Imaging' and 'Optical Techniques in Medical Imaging' that I have
written for the Institute of Physics
and Engineering in Medicine please click here.
This page allows you to download the brochures, which are designed to
highlight 'new and emerging areas of research in physics and
engineering, and discuss their application to the solution of problems
in medicine and biology'.
If you'd like to read a selection of the press releases I
have written for the Institute of Physics,
please
click
on
the
subject titles below. These link to various
websites that have published the releases.
• Ice Plays
Role In Star Formation
• Stretching
the
imagination
-
the
amazing properties of 'liquid crystal elastomers'
• Physicists
help
Met
Office
predict
severity of snow falls
Career Profiles and Interviews:
To see my entry in the 'What Inspired
You?' survey of 'key thinkers in science, technology and medicine',
which was conducted by spiked
in
collaboration
with
Pfizer
please click here.
Also conducted by spiked
in collaboration with Pfizer was the 'What's
the
greatest
innovation?' survey. I was one of the 'contributors
…asked to identify what they see as the greatest innovation in their
field.' Click here
to see my contribution.
I also have an entry
in spiked online's
'Enlightening
the
Future
2024' 'survey of experts, opinion formers and
interesting thinkers', which was conducted in collaboration with
Orange, and aimed 'to identify some key questions facing the next
generation'.
To read my Scientist Profile in the Next Step careers section
of the Planet
Science website you will need to search under either Science
Communication or Physics in the subject search facility on the right
hand side of the page after clicking here.
You may also like to read my Case Study in the careers section of the Institute of Physics website.
To read an interview about Bose, and 'The Indian Particle
Man' radio programme, go to Amit Roy's 'Eye
on
England'
column
for
Sunday 16th Jan 2005 in The Calcutta
Telegraph. Please follow this link then page down for the 'Bose to
bosons' section.
Amit also wrote a follow-up piece in the 'Particle Woman'
section of his 'Eye
on
England'
column
for
Sunday 2nd July 2006 in The Calcutta
Telegraph, which refers to the programme being shortlisted for the
Syngenta ABSW Science Writers' Awards.