Hannah Devlin | |
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![]() UK Science Journalists: (left to right) Roger Highfield, Nigel Hawkes, Mark Henderson, Hannah Devlin, Ed Yong, in the 2011 Geek Calendar to support Libel Reform | |
Education | St Bede's College, Manchester |
Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Known for | Science journalism |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Research Fortnight The Times The Guardian |
Thesis | Physiological variability in functional magnetic resonance imaging (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Jezzard [1] |
Website | theguardian |
Hannah Devlin is an author in London and science correspondent for The Guardian .
Devlin attended St Bede's College, Manchester, where she studied A-Levels in Maths, Physics, French and General Studies. [2] She completed an undergraduate degree in physics at Imperial College London in 2004 [2] She has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in functional magnetic resonance imaging from the University of Oxford for research supervised by Peter Jezzard. [1] [3] [4] In 2006, whilst Devlin was a DPhil student, she worked for The Times on a British Science Association Media Fellowship. [5] She began her career as a journalist whilst completing her postgraduate studies. [6] [7] She was a finalist for the Young Science Writers award. [8]
Devlin worked for Research Fortnight for a year, before getting a permanent job at The Times in 2009. [2] [9] [10]
In 2015, Devlin was appointed to The Guardian. [11] She works as the science correspondent for The Guardian, [12] as well as presenting their podcast Science Weekly. [13] [14] [15] Devlin has also written for the journal Science . [16] In 2017 she gave a keynote talk at the Human Tissue Association's annual conference. [17] She has been shortlisted for the 2017 The Press Awards Science Journalist of the Year.
Devlin is an advocate for women in science. [18] In 2011 she chaired a debate with Athene Donald, Ottoline Leyser and Keith Laws called Women of science, do you know your place?. [19] [20] She has contributed opinion pieces such as Why don't women win Nobel science prizes? [21] and Why are there so few women in tech? The truth behind the Google memo. [22]