Hi, I'm Alice Bell. Part-time historian of the apocalypse, full time campaigner for a better future.
Most of the week, I can be found heading up climate policy at the Wellcome Trust. 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 also did my 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 I’ve 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. I’ve also produced educational resources as part of the national year of science and worked as an Explainer at the Science Museum (I can still mix up a vat of professional-grade bubble mix if you ask me nicely).
If you’re interested in my work, want me to write for you or do a talk, do get in touch. My gmail is alicerosebell.