Media, Outreach and Consultancy

Media Appearances

‘Heartbreak Science’, BBC Scotland / Prospero productions (November 2009).
The Eureka Years with Adam Hart-Davis, BBC Radio 4 (12 September 2007) on the Wellcome Heart exhibition
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, BBC Radio 4 (1 June, 2006) on the medical history of the heart
Secrets of the Body (The Wellcome Trust, produced by Carole Reeves, 2003)
The Trouble with Love with Amanda Vickery, BBC2 (16 September, 2002) on court records and marital relations.

Consultant to the British Government on open access and transparency (2010)
Member of Ithaka Advisory Council on the Sustainability of Digital Resources (2010-2011)
Member of Advisory Panel for British Library Oral History of British Science. (2010-2011)
Consultant to the British Library in its development of its acclaimed 2009 exhibition on ‘Liberty’
Conference speaker for the British Science Association and the British Holistic Medical Association
Working with the Association of Commonwealth Universities to develop a strategy on access to humanities materials throughout Africa (2009-2010)
External reviewer for publishers and funders, including Medical History, ISIS, Yale University Press and the Wellcome Trust
Member of the History and Policy network of historians