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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Frank Burnet
DATE OF BIRTH: 2nd May 1948
HIGHER EDUCATION:
1966 – 1970 St. Andrews University.
1971 – 1973 New College, Oxford
1973 – 1975 Wolfson College, Oxford
QUALIFICATIONS:
1970 – BSc.(Hons, First Class), Biochemistry
1975 – D.Phil (Neuroendocrinology)
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
1971 – Best Freshman Actor. Oxford
1973 – Graduate Award. Wolfson College
1988 – Media Fellowship, The Royal Society of London
1999 –Von Liebig Memorial Medal, Royal Society of Medicine
2000 – MBE, Queens Birthday Honours List for “Services to Science Communication”
CAREER LANDMARKS:
Master of Rutherford College, The University of Kent at Canterbury [1990 – 1996]
Founding Director, Cheltenham Science Festival [2001 – 2006]
Professor in Science Communication, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK [2002 – 2008]
Awarded Emeritus Professorship of Science Communication [2010]
MAJOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION PROJECTS:
Science on the Buses [UK, EU, Norway, China; 1997 – 2002]
Meet the Gene Machine [UK, Latvia, Czech Republic, US; 2005 – ]
Robot Thought [UK, US; 2006 – 2009]
Science Festivals [UK (Cheltenham; 2002 -2006], US (St Louis 2008 – ), Latvia (Daugavpils 2007-), Saudia Arabia (2009 – )
ADVISORY ROLES TO:
The State Goverment of Victoria, Australia [2006]
The European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg [2000 – 2008]
Research Councils UK, Swindon
The Wellcome Trust. London
Tribal plc. London
Artikum, Finland
ECSITE, Brussels
The British Council, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Russia. Croatia, Brazil, China, Greece, Saudi Arabia. Egypt
VISITING LECTURER IN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
University of Latvia [2003 – 2008]
University ot Trieste [2004 – ]
University of Lapland [ 2008 – ]
University of Zagreb [1999 -2003]
MAJOR FUNDED PROJECTS:
1998 £133,000 Science on the Buses [The National Campaign]
The Office of Science and Technology
2002 £270,000 Sci-Bus [The EU Campaign]
Framework V European Commission
2004 £150,000 Consultation as science communication?
Economics and Social Science Research Council [with James Longhurst ]
2005 £29,065 Meet the Mighty Gene Machine
The Wellcome Trust
2005 £111,000 Robot Thought
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [with Alan Winfield]
2005 £250,000 Walking with Robots
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [with Alan Winfield]
2006 £211,000 Meet the Gene Machine – UK Roll Out
The Wellcome Trust
2006 £290,000
Office of Science and Technology [with DEMOS, Dialogue by Design and BBC]
SOME RECENT AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
CURRENT
Development of the first national Egypt Science Festival [2010 – ]
Development of a national Science Festival for Saudi Arabia [2009 – 2010]
Science communication training for Chairs of COST actions [with ECSITE]
Membership of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
President of the Agora Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation
Member of the Advisory Board for the Perugia Science Festival
External Examiner for the MSc in Science, Communication and Society, University of Kent
Co-Director [with Leonardo Alfonsi] of FameLab Italia
RECENT
Communications workshop for staff at the Lakeside Laboratory, University of Klagenfurt [Nov 2010]
Communications Adviser to Nano to Touch project [Sept 2010]
Communications workshop for scientists involved in the Biotech Sweetpotato for Africa project [Aug 2010]
Demon Morris Minor Mechanic also