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Title: Ms. Job Title: PhD Student Fax: Email: h.walmsley@lancaster.ac.uk Building: Room Number:
Heather is working on an ESRC- funded PhD exploring the potential of digital storytelling to stimulate public engagement with human genomics research, and to democratise debates about ethics and justice.
From September 2005, she is based at The Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, carrying out collaborative research with indigenous health organisations, genomics researchers and ethicists in Canada.
Heather has a first-class honours MA in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University (1997), an MA in English Literature (critical theory) from Sussex University (1999), a Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism (2001), and a social science research methods training MA from Lancaster University (2004).
Prior experience includes several years working in new media in London – as website editor for Schoolsnet.com, website editor for Greenpeace UK, and staff writer on Internet Magazine. Heather still freelances occasionally for newspapers and magazines, and writes regularly for www.id21.org. Funded by the UK Government Department for International Development, www.id21.org is a website communicating international development research to policymakers worldwide. During 2004, she also worked as a part-time lecturer at Edge Hill in Ormskirk, teaching the core module in Online Journalism to second-year students on the NCTJ-accredited BA in Journalism.
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