Dr Louisa Cockbill

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Role:

Project Coordinator for Curiosity Connections Green Futures and Communications Manager for the Centre for Environment, Society and Resilience (CESR)

Department staff:

FET - Engineering, Design and Mathematics

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Qualifications:BSc, PhD
Position:Project Coordinator for Curiosity Connections Green Futures and Communications Manager for the Centre for Environment, Society and Resilience (CESR)
Department:FET - Engineering, Design and Mathematics
Email:Louisa.Cockbill@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Louisa Cockbill is the Communications Project Coordinator for the School of Engineering's Inspire Sustainability schools outreach team, with a particular focus on delivering the Curiosity Connections Green Futures project and Women in Engineering mentoring programme.

She is also the Communications Manager for UWE's Centre for Environment, Society and Resilience (CESR). The centre's interdisciplinary environmental research focuses on influencing and impacting people and policy.

Inspire Sustainability aims to address the nationwide skills gap in engineering by championing science for children in the West of England, with a particular focus on breaking stereotypes and challenging perceptions about STEM careers, inparticular Green jobs. She also heads up the Engineering Department's Engineering our Future webpage - https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/engineering/

Louisa is a science communicator with experience as a writer (writing stories on new scientific research for various international publications) and presenter (presenting science shows to children and families).

She holds a BSc in Cancer Biology and Immunology and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol.

Area of expertise

Communicating science to the public - in writing or through engaging presentations. Managing school outreach projects.

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