Fiona Fox (UK press officer)
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Fiona Fox (born 1964) is the director of the Science Media Centre.
Fiona was born in to an Irish Catholic family in North Wales, the younger sister of Claire and Gemma. She attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint and studied journalism at Polytechnic of Central London.
Fiona started her career at Thames Polytechnic as an assistant PR officer. From there she worked for six years at the Equal Opportunities Commission where she became a senior press officer, followed by two years running the media operation at the National Council for One Parent Families. A total change of environment followed as Fiona became Head of Media at CAFOD, where she founded the Jubilee 2000 press group, which aimed to push serious Third World issues onto the media and political agendas.
In December 2001, Fiona was appointed the founding Director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, UK.
Fiona Fox has been accused of genocide denial in relation to a report she wrote in 1995 for the magazine Living Marxism on the violence in Rwanda.[1]
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[edit] Articles by Fiona Fox
- the BA: Scientists in the pay of industry (June 2006) - A striking aspect of the media’s coverage of science in recent years is the growing trend to ‘uncover’ and ‘expose’ scientists’ links with industry written by Fiona Fox
- Submit Research to Expert Scrutiny, Public Tells Scientists (February 2004) - Fiona Fox comments on Peer Review MORI poll
- Chemistry World: Comment: Playing fast and loose with science (November 2006) - Following the release of the WWF report ‘Chain of contamination: the food link’, John Henry and Fiona Fox comment on the study, and its coverage in the media
- scenta: "Not just another scare story?" (January 2006) - Interview with Fiona Fox on sensational science headlines in the press
- Chemistry World: Nanotech - The Next Controversy alike GM? (February 2004)
- Sunday Times: Relative Values Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters (May 2006) - An interview with Claire and Fiona
