about

I’m Hayley Birch, a freelance science writer and editor with a sideline in quirky science communication projects. I’ve written about everything from buckyballs to spandex space suits and have worked on magazines, books, podcasts, festivals and websites.

I’ve been working as a freelance writer and editor for over two years now. My articles have appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Nature Biotechnology, Focus, Science for Environment Policy and the Telegraph and I have contributed to and edited several popular science books, including Defining Moments in Science.

I also spent a year working as an editor at Null Hypothesis, the Journal of Unlikely Science, and have been involved in a wide range of science communication projects, including a science and music event called Geek Pop and the communication working group of the NanoMed Round Table, set up to advise the EU parliament on the communication of nanomedicine. I have a particular interest in the use of new media for science communication.

I completed my first degree, in biology, at the University of Warwick. In 2006, I was awarded a bursary to study science communication at master’s level by the Association of British Science Writers. I was awarded the Richard Gregory Prize for Science Communication in 2009.

If this page hasn’t told you what you wanted to know, feel free to contact me for a full CV or further information.