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Sarah Brooker

Managing Director of Science in Public

Sarah is the Managing Director of Science in Public. She loves developing communication strategies, managing events, and training scientists in finding their voice and delivering their science stories.

Before settling down into a business and starting Science in Public, she assisted Biotechnology Australia to establish the Gene Technology Information Service, a national enquiry centre on biotechnology and gene technology.

Her background is biochemistry and genetics until she discovered science communication by running away with the Questacon science circus way back in 1999.

Contact Sarah: sarah@scienceinpublic.com.au

In a previous life as a freelancer, she has been:

  • Chief organiser to get science journalists from around the world to come to Melbourne for the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists;
  • Party planner for the Academy of Science helping them celebrate their 50th anniversary;
  • Coordinator for Science meets Parliament;
  • Exhibition designer and then presenter extracting DNA from bananas in a shopping centre in China for ten days straight.