Hi, I'm Alice Bell. Part-time historian of the apocalypse, full time campaigner for a better future.
I’m a freelance writer, researcher and consultant on science, technology and the environment. As well as writing two books and features, reviews and comment a host of publications, I’ve helped organisations train staff in communications and policy, apply for funding, scope out new areas of work and puzzle out strategy.
I’ve spent much of the last few years at the Wellcome Trust, helping to build their exciting new programme on climate and health. Before that, I spent seven years working at the climate charity, Possible, working on everything from community tree planting events to solar powered railways.
I’ve also spent a decade or so in academia and journalism, specialising in the politics of science and technology. I was a lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London, where I completed a PhD and developed a college-wide interdisciplinary course on climate change. After leaving Imperial, I was a research fellow at Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, and taught at City University’s Journalism School and UCL’s Department of Science and Technology Studies too.
As a writer and editor, I launched the “magazine for the future”, How We Get to Next, was a regular contributor to the International Council for Science’s Road to Paris blog on climate policy. My work has been published in the Observer, Times Higher, New Humanist, Mosaic magazine, Research Fortnight, China Dialogue, Icon, Open Democracy, the Times and more. I’ve contributed to the Guardian comment pages for several years, and was one of the founders of the science policy blog there. Going further back, I produced educational resources as part of the national year of science and worked as an Explainer at the Science Museum, and I can still mix up a vat of professional-grade bubble mix if you ask me nicely.
If you want to get in touch. My gmail is alicerosebell.