awards
UKRC Woman of Achievement Award 2009
Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000
Canadian High Commission Competition Winner 1997
Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the Year Awards (Highly Commended) 1996
BT Technology Journalist of the Year Awards (Special Commendation) 1996
Welsh Woman of the Year HTV Award 1996
teaching
Science Journalism Lecturer, City University, London 2004-2007
Science Writing Tutor, Science Postgraduate Support Group, Sussex University 2004-2008
Validator, Science and Environmental Journalism MA, University of Lincoln
conference presentations
‘Science journalism and innovation’, Vetenskap & Allmänhets-dagen 2005 om Vetenskap & Media, Radiohuset, Stockholm, 9 November 2005.
J G Crowther and the Science-Journalism Relationship Conference: JG Crowther: Science Journalism, Science Policy, Science and Society, University College London, 2005
UK Science: In a muddle with the media?, Invited lecture for the Commmitee on the Public Understanding of Science at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Birmingham University, 11 September 1996.
practice (journalism)
Over 700 articles published in UK national and regional newspapers, including:
‘Theory of relativity’, The Guardian, 27 November 2006.
‘A fine measuring tool’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 14 January, 2000.
publications (academic)
Crowther, Kuhn and Systems of Mediation, paper presented at the 75th Anniversary conference of the British Society for the History of Science, “Scientists and Social Commitment”, Science Museum, London, 15-17 September, 2006
‘Systems of innovation are systems of mediation: a discussion of the critical role of science communication in innovation and knowledge-based development’, working paper, July 2000.
publications (writing and editing consultancy)
Achieving Growth in a Wider Europe: Understanding the Emergence of Industrial Networks, ESRC Policy Report for the ESRC project ‘The emerging industrial architecture of the wider Europe’, University of Sussex, March 2003 (see project team on ResearchGate)
CSRS (2000) Innovation management in Russia: a review of training needs and opportunities for growth, [Edited with Elizabeth Bell (British Council Moscow) and Leonid Gokhberg, written by Leonid Gokhberg, Natalia Kovaleva and Irina Kouznetsova (Centre for Science Research and Statistics, Moscow)].
‘Funding Science for Growth’, Report of the British Council/OST UK-Russia Workshop, 6-7 September 1999.
‘Science, Technology and Growth: Issues for Central and Eastern Europe’, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, UK, with Radosovic, S, April 1999.
‘Public Science and Wealth Creation in Britain’, Manchester, April (with Senker, J.), May 1999.
qualifications
Certificate in Creative Writing (TV Scriptwriting) University of East Anglia/Guardian, 2017
Doctoral Thesis: Systems of Innovation are Systems of Mediation: Organisational virtuality in the UK Newspaper Industry [which traced the emergence of social media in UK regional news, as it happened] University of Sussex, Brighton, September 2001 [extract]
(see also teaching, above)
Wenger’s assertion that viewers are not part of the community of practice of TV programme making37 highlights a weaknesses in his social theory of learning: the concepts of peripherality38 and marginality39. For these rely on the idea of full participation to be meaningful, when – as Wenger writes – ‘no single member is fully representative of the practice as a whole’ (Wenger 1998: 111). Although relations of participation and marginality are easy to conceive, the notion of a universally shared, identifiable ‘periphery’ or ‘centre’ of a practice is much more problematic.
Gristock 2001:52 (PhD Thesis)
Is it possible that scientists are beginning to recognise journalism is important; not just for society, but for science too?
Gristock 2006 (in The Guardian)