Office team
Tracey Brown, Managing Director
Tracey Brown is managing director of the UK-based charitable trust Sense About Science, which equips the public to make sense of science and evidence. She joined Sense About Science as director in its founding year 2002. Tracey has a background in social research, and previously spent four years working on a European Commission programme to establish social research and teaching in the former Soviet Union, and a year setting up a commercially based risk analysis centre. She is a trustee of Centre of the Cell and a trustee of the Responsible Nano Forum. In 2009 she became a commissioner for the UK Drugs Policy Commission. She sits on the Outreach Committee of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 2009 was made a Friend of the College. She is also chairman of DCA Hernhill Junior FC.
Sile Lane, Public Liaison
Sile joined Sense About Science in February 2009 after a career in stem cell research. As public liaison, Sile is concerned with the role of science and evidence in civic society. She also coordinates the Keep Libel Laws out of Science campaign.
Ellen Raphael, Director UK
Ellen is Director UK at Sense About Science. She studied sociology at the University of Kent and has a master’s degree in Social Research. She is responsible for the design and implementation of Sense About Science projects, working with scientists to produce materials for the public on contentious subjects including, chemicals, weather and radiation. As a non-scientist she enjoys grilling scientists to separate facts from fiction and is constantly surprised by what she discovers.
Leonor Sierra, Scientific Liaison
Leonor is Scientific Liaison at Sense About Science matching scientists with projects, problems and requests for help. After specialising in Physics during her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, she stayed on at Cambridge University for her PhD, working on carbon nanotubes and zinc oxide nanowires - basically very very little wires. She joined Sense About Science in February 2008.
Alice Tuff, Development Manager
Alice is responsible for programme research and development at Sense About Science. Alice previously worked with Sense About Science as an intern in 2006, investigating clinics that were selling homeopathic antimalarials. She has a degree in cell biology and pathology from St Andrews University and spent six months travelling around Asia (thankfully her evidence-based antimalarial prophylactics worked!) prior to joining Sense About Science in May 2007.
Julia Wilson, Development Officer
Julia joined Sense About Science in 2008 as an intern after graduating with a degree in Biology from the University of Manchester. Since April 2009 she is Development Officer at Sense About Science and also coordinates the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) network.
Last updated: January 06 2010