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SUMMARY:Science and the Media - Quentin Cooper\, Presenter of BBC's &quot\
 ;Material World&quot\;
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CONTACT:Dr Nigel Bennee
DESCRIPTION:"For me science isn’t a subject\, it’s a perspective…"\n
 \n“Quentin Cooper hosts BBC Radio 4’s weekly The Material World\, the 
 UK's most listened to science programme\, as well writing and presenting a
  range of other science output on radio\, television and in print.  He als
 o facilitates and directs a huge range of other science events in the UK a
 nd round the world – in the last year these include everything from scie
 nce journalism workshops in Azerbaijan to a biodiversity conference in Bra
 zil\, from the first European Commission forum on science communication in
  Spain to the training and finals in Munich for Europe-wide science talent
  contest FameLab.  He is an advisor and trustee to several leading UK scie
 nce organisations including the Wellcome Trust\, Newcastle’s Life Centre
  and Cheltenham Science Festival and is one of the judges for the new £25
 \,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for medicine in literature launched in Oct
 ober 2008.  The same month he joined scientists plus Oscar-\, Grammy-\, Em
 my-\, Pulitzer- and other global arts prize-winners on the Cape Farewell c
 limate change expedition to the west coast of Greenland.\n\nSource: elia-a
 rtschools\n
LOCATION:Biochemistry Lecture Theatre\, Sanger Building\, Tennis Court Roa
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