Fiona Fox

Fiona Fox, also known as Fiona Foster, is head of the Science Media Centre and member of the Sense about Science Working party on peer review.

Previously senior Press Officer for the Equal Opportunities Commission, head of media relations for the National Council for One Parent Families, and Head of Media at the aid agency Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD). [

Member of the LM group and contributor to Living Marxism, through which she was associated with controversial views regarding the Rwandan genocide. 

She is sister of Claire Fox, head of the Institute of Ideas.

During 2002, she took part in a Workshop on Communication of Science Policy to the Media for the Department of Trade and Industry, along with Rebecca Bowden of the Royal Society, shortly before the SMC was created.

Resources

 * SMC: staff profiles, accessed November 2003
 * "Science Media Centre director is Living Marxism genocide apologist", Norfolk Genetic Information Network, 21 June 2002
 * Andy Rowell, "LobbyWatch: SMC complaint", April 2007. (This is an edited version of a submission made by Andy Rowell to the board of the Science Media Centre).
 * Employment tribunal hears of bizarre hoax phone call ""
 * Interview on Newswatch 6 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s3yxd/Newswatch_23_04_2010/
 * Fiona Fox's Blog http://fionafox.blogspot.com/