Hermione Cockburn | |
|---|---|
 Hermione Cockburn at the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival | |
| Born | 1973 (age 48–49) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Television and radio presenter |
| Children | 2 |
Hermione Anne Phoebe Cockburn OBE FRSE (born 1973, Sussex, England) is a British television and radio presenter specialising in scientific and educational programmes. She is currently Scientific Director at Our Dynamic Earth.
Cockburn grew up in Cuckfield in Sussex. [1] She has a PhD in geomorphology from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked at various academic institutes including a two-year post-doctorate at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Antarctica, Australia, and Namibia. In 1999, Cockburn helped establish the education service at Our Dynamic Earth, a science centre and visitor attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2002, she won BBC Talent's Science on Screen competition and co-presented the Tomorrow's World Award Show on BBC One. Then, in 2005, Cockburn co-presented What the Ancients Did for Us with Adam Hart-Davis for BBC Two, exploring the scientific legacy of ancient civilisations, before joining the team of Rough Science (also on BBC Two), replacing Kathy Sykes for the sixth series.
Expert contributions for the BBC Television series Coast have included explanations of Scottish geomorphology, geoarchaeology and engineering geology. In 2008, she presented the BBC Television/Open University documentary series Fossil Detectives for which she also wrote the companion book. From 2005 to 2010, she was the regular presenter of Resource Review on the Teachers' TV channel.
She is an associate lecturer with the Open University, teaching environmental science in Scotland. [2]
Cockburn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to public engagement in science. [3]
Cockburn is married and has two sons. [4] [ failed verification ]
In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [5]
Moira Clare Ruby Stuart, is a British presenter and broadcaster. She was the first Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.
Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE is a Scottish television presenter with a long career at the BBC.
Cuckfield is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies 34 miles (55 km) south of London, 13 miles (21 km) north of Brighton, and 31 miles (50 km) east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the southeast and Burgess Hill to the south. It is surrounded on the other sides by the parish of Ansty and Staplefield formerly known as Cuckfield Rural.
Richard Alan Fortey FRS FRSL is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007.
Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe OBE is a writer and broadcaster. He contributes frequently to British newspapers, TV and radio. He is also now a consultant and non-executive director of public and private organisations. Fanshawe was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall. He won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1989.
Alison Elliot CBE FRSE is an honorary fellow at New College, Edinburgh. She was the former Associate Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2004 she became the first woman ever to be elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. An elder and session clerk at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, she was also the first non-minister to hold this post since George Buchanan in 1567.
Aubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, was an English zoologist and broadcaster.
George Watson's College is a co-educational independent day school in Scotland, situated on Colinton Road, in the Merchiston area of Edinburgh. It was first established as a hospital school in 1741, became a day school in 1871, and was merged with its sister school George Watson's Ladies College in 1974. It is a Merchant Company of Edinburgh school and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
Michael James Benton is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record.
Heather Margaret Murray Reid, also known as "Heather the Weather", is a Scottish meteorologist, physicist, science communicator and educator. She was formerly a broadcaster and weather presenter for BBC Scotland.
Stuart Kinnaird Monro OBE, FRSGS, FRSE is a Scottish geologist and science communicator.
Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome, is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is the current President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. She is President elect of St John's College, Oxford. She is Patron of the following charities: Archaeology Scotland and E2M.
Iain Simpson Stewart is a Scottish geologist who is currently Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. He is a UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society and formerly a member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Programme. Described as geology's "rock star", Stewart is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, notably the BAFTA nominated Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007).
Fossil Detectives is a 2008 BBC Television documentary series in which presenter Hermione Cockburn travels across Great Britain exploring fossil sites and discovering the latest scientific developments in geology and palaeontology. The show is a spin-off of Coast.
Ian Graham Gass, FRS, geologist, was Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of Discipline at the Open University, Milton Keynes and he was President of the IAVCEI (1983–87). He was married to Mary Pearce.
Polly Louise Arnold is director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. She previously held the Crum Brown chair in the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh from 2007 to 2019 and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) career fellowship.
Sue Monroe is a British television presenter, actress, and author best known for hosting CBeebies, and playing Poppy in Playdays.
Sir Charles Peter 'Pete' Downes is a British biochemist and chairman of Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. Downes served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2009 until 2018. He is the former Head of the College of Life Sciences and co-founder of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) alongside Sir Phillip Cohen. Having contributed to research in the pharmaceutical industry for eleven years prior to joining Dundee, he is one of the top 15 most cited bio-scientists in the UK.
Mary Bownes OBE FRSE FRES FRSB is an English molecular and developmental biologist; she is Vice Principal Community Engagement and Emerita Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology at all levels and was previously Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University from 1998-2001.
Ethel Marian Scott, is a Scottish statistician, author and academic, specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling. She is Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. She is additionally Vice-President (International) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
