Hannah Devlin is an author in London and science correspondent for ''

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''.

Education

Devlin attended

St Bede's College, Manchester ("He never relaxed in idleness") , established = 1876 , closed = , type = Independent day school Public School , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic , president = , head_label = Headteacher , head ...

, where she studied A-Levels in Maths, Physics, French and General Studies. She completed an undergraduate degree in physics at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

in 2004 She has a

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...

degree in

functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

for research supervised by Peter Jezzard. In 2006, whilst Devlin was a DPhil student, she worked for ''

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'' on a

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Media Fellowship. She began her career as a journalist whilst completing her postgraduate studies. She was a finalist for the Young Science Writers award.

Career

Devlin worked for ''

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'' for a year, before getting a permanent job at ''

'' in 2009. In 2015, Devlin was appointed to ''The Guardian''. She works as the science correspondent for ''The Guardian'', as well as presenting their podcast Science Weekly. Devlin has also written for the journal ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

''. In 2017 she gave a keynote talk at the Human Tissue Association's annual conference. She has been shortlisted for the 2017

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Science Journalist of the Year. Devlin is an advocate for

women in science The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made significant contributions. Historians with an interest in gender and science have researched the scientific endeavors and accomplishments ...

. In 2011 she chaired a debate with

Athene Donald Dame Athene Margaret Donald (née Griffith; born 15 May 1953) is a British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. Outside the University, she chaired the ...

Ottoline Leyser Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser (born 7 March 1965) is a British plant biologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge, Chief Executive Officer of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Sainsbury Laboratory, ...

and

Keith Laws Keith R. Laws is a professor of neuropsychology at the School of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. Professor Laws' research centres on how cognitive functions and processes relate to brain structure and function; notably for resear ...

called ''Women of science, do you know your place?''. She has contributed opinion pieces such as ''Why don't women win Nobel science prizes?'' and ''Why are there so few women in tech? The truth behind the Google memo''.

References

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