Talks and Training – Dr Sharon Ann Holgate

Teaching and Science Communication Training

Sharon Ann with Kenji Newton at a training session at King’s College London, 2025.

Between 2019 and 2022 I was a Guest Educator on the Science Communications module for fourth year MSci and MSc physics students at King’s College London (KCL). In 2024, 2025 and 2026 I presented Science Communication Training Sessions for academic staff in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at KCL, and for the King’s Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at KCL in 2026 . You can read my King’s People profile here.

I have also delivered workshops in-person and remotely for the student community of the Institute of Physics in 2024 and 2025.

Sharon Ann with Julian Guassardo at the Public Speaking for Physicists workshop at the Institute of Physics in London in 2025.

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Talks About Science Communication

Sharon Ann Holgate giving a session at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2021 — Still from AAAS talk in 2021. Copyright: Sharon Ann Holgate

I have given remote talks about science writing and broadcasting for events including the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Annual Meeting in the United States and the South African Institute of Physics seminar series, as well as for universities including Imperial College London, Rhodes University in South Africa and Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Still from talk for the Women+ in Physics group at Royal Holloway, University of London, 2026.

Science and History of Toilet Paper

Stack of toilet rolls artfully arranged in a different layout — Photo: Sharon Ann Holgate

Having previously written and broadcast about the topic, in 2005 I gave a talk on the science and history of toilet paper at Milestones museum of social history.

Talk to Accompany Children’s Book The Way Science Works

Sharon Ann giving a science talk and demonstrations at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in 2003

In March 2003 I gave a talk with audience participation on The Way Science Works at my old hospital, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London.