Dr Steve Scott

Organisation

UK Research and Innovation

Job Title

Public Engagement Lead 

Dr Steve Scott is a Public Engagement Lead at UK Research and Innovation. He leads on public engagement with research working with higher education and research institutions, researchers and public engagement professionals. A focus of this work is establishing a culture and environment where researchers feel empowered, encouraged and supported to engage public groups with their research.

Steve is also a Producer for Story Collider, producing live storytelling shows dedicated to true, personal stories about science. These stories are shared through a weekly podcast.

Steve previously worked at the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, UK working with researchers, staff and students to enable them to engage the public with their research on genomics and biodata. He’s also worked at the Medical Research Council, Sudler & Hennessey and the University of Cambridge.