The Conversation Canada is thrilled to announce Heather Walmsley, one of many
founding editors who helped us launch in 2017, is returning to the fold. She was instrumental in establishing The Conversation Canada as an impartial supply of stories and views from the educational and analysis neighborhood. Over the following three years, she edited science, schooling and well being articles and helped develop our information protection, viewers and college membership.
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Heather shall be our Science & Technology editor, and these two beats are a key a part of our mission to share trusted tutorial information with the general public. She involves The Conversation Canada from the University of Victoria, the place she labored for the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation, elevating the profile of well being analysis throughout campus. She has labored in journalism, analysis and information mobilization for quite a lot of media shops, non-profits and analysis establishments within the United Kingdom and Canada.
Heather has MA levels in anthropology and postcolonial literature from the colleges of Edinburgh and Sussex, a PhD in science and expertise research from Lancaster University and held a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in medical sociology on the University of British Columbia.
Her modifying experience, concepts and deep understanding of our mandate shall be a boon to the newsroom. As The Conversation Canada matures from a scrappy startup to a trusted non-profit information group, Heather shall be a terrific asset on the eve of our tenth birthday. We can’t wait till she begins on Feb. 23.
Welcome Heather!