Kathy Sykes

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Kathy Sykes
File:Kathy Sykes at Cheltenham Science Festival 2009 cropped.jpg
Sykes at the 2009 Cheltenham Science Festival
Born Katharine Ellen Sykes
(1966-12-20) December 20, 1966 (age 57)[1]
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Alma mater University of Bristol
Thesis Crystallization and degradation of a biodegradable plastic - polyhydroxybutyrate (1996)
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Website
www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/people/kathy-profile

Katharine Ellen "Kathy" Sykes OBE (born 20 December 1966) is a British physicist, broadcaster and Professor of Sciences and Society at the University of Bristol. She was previously Collier Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering, from 2002 to 2006.[2] She has presented various BBC2 and Open University TV series, including Rough Science, Ever Wondered about Food, Alternative Therapies. Alternative Medicine and presented for the documentary television miniseries Brave New World with Stephen Hawking in 2011.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Education

Sykes was educated at Fitzharrys School, a co-educational comprehensive school in Abingdon.[10] She went on to study at the University of Bristol where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1989[1] and a PhD in 1996 for work on the crystallization and degradation of polyhydroxybutyrate, a biodegradeable plastic.[11]

Career

Sykes helped to create and co-directs Cheltenham Science Festival and Famelab, a national UK competition which talent spots and trains new faces in science communication. She was Head of Science for Explore-At-Bristol, in charge of the team creating the content for the award-winning Hands-on Science Centre. She is a member of the Council for Science and Technology (CST), the UK government's top-level advisory body on science and technology policy issues. She has also sat on advisory panels in public engagement in science for the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC. She is a trustee of NESTA[12] and a board member of Explore-At-Bristol.

Awards and honours

Sykes won the 2006 Royal Society Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science.[13] She holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree and honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire.[2][14][15]

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 BBC News 4 June 2009
  3. ↑ Kathy Sykes at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Kathy Sykes's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  10. ↑ The Times, 14 November 2004
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  12. ↑ Professor Kathy Sykes NESTA
  13. ↑ Royal Society Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science
  14. ↑ Gloucestershire Echo, 5 June 2009, p.2
  15. ↑ Honorary Doctorate for Professor Kathy Sykes
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