Fiona Fox Explained

Fiona Fox
Birth Date:1964 11, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Mancot, Wales
Employer:Science Media Centre
Previously:
NCOPF
Equal Opportunities Commission
CAFOD
Thames Polytechnic
Occupation:Journalist
Press secretary
Public relations
Relations:Claire Fox (sister)
Alma Mater:Polytechnic of Central London
Known For:Science Media Centre
Awards:OBE
Spouse:Kevin Rooney
Website:

Fiona Bernadette Fox (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer and chief executive[2] of the Science Media Centre.[3]

Career

Fox was a writer for Living Marxism, a British magazine produced by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). In 1995, LM published an article by Fox denying the Rwandan genocide.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Fox became head of media at CAFOD in 1995.[1]

In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London and its current chief executive.

In that capacity she has been a regular media commentator and gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards in the UK in 2012.[8]

Awards

Fox was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[9]

Personal life

Fox was born into an Irish Catholic family in Mancot, near Hawarden, North Wales.[1] She has two older sisters, one of whom is Claire Fox.[10] She is a supporter of Celtic F.C.[1] and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney.[1] She was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Published works

Book: Fox . Fiona . Beyond the Hype . 2022 . Elliott and Thompson Limited . London . 978-1-78396-617-2 . 1274201845 . English. 1.

References

  1. Web site: FOX, Fiona, (Mrs Kevin Rooney) . Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press .
  2. Web site: staff Science Media Centre . 2022-08-14 . en-GB.
  3. Callaway . E.. Science media: Centre of attention: Fiona Fox and her Science Media Centre are determined to improve Britain's press. Now the model is spreading around the world. 10.1038/499142a . Nature . 499 . 7457 . 142–144 . 2013 . 23846643. free .
  4. News: Massacring the truth in Rwanda . December 1995 . Fiona . Foster . Living Marxism . https://web.archive.org/web/20010521175331/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM85/LM85_Rwanda.html/ . 21 May 2001 .
  5. Chris McGreal, "Genocide? What genocide?", The Guardian, 20 March 2000
  6. Book: Melvern . Linda . Linda Melvern . Intent to Deceive: Denying the Rwandan Genocide . 2020 . Verso Books . 978-1-78873-328-1 . 133 .
  7. Hoare . Marko Attila . Genocide in the former Yugoslavia: a critique of left revisionism's denial . Journal of Genocide Research . 2003 . 5 . 4 . 543–563 . 10.1080/1462352032000149495. 145169670 .
  8. Web site: Leveson Inquiry . 2022-08-14 . discoverleveson.com.
  9. Web site: Fiona Fox . 2023-05-24 . royalsociety.org.
  10. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Sunday Times: Relative Values Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters
  11. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2006/November/Comment.asp Chemistry World: Comment: Playing fast and loose with science
  12. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2004/February/comment.asp Chemistry World: Nanotech – The Next Controversy alike GM?
  13. Web site: On Science and the Media. fionafox.blogspot.com.
  14. http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3164 LobbyWatch profile of Fox
  15. Web site: Fiona Fox – The Guardian. The Guardian.

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