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CATHERINE WHITLOCK - RECENT PROJECTS
As a freelance writer, I am regularly approached to work on a wide spectrum of projects ranging from short magazine articles to long technical reports.
Recent clients include:
• The European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
• Wellcome Trust
• Nature Publishing Group
• Magazines/Supplements
2010/2011
I have been working with EAHC through the Communication and PR Agency, Media Consulta.
Recent clients include:
• The European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
• Wellcome Trust
• Nature Publishing Group
• Magazines/Supplements
The European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC)
I have been working with EAHC through the Communication and PR Agency, Media Consulta.
| Reaching out to rare disease patients across Europe (to be published in 2011) Working with the European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) and the communication and PR agency Media Consulta, I have produced a 40 page information booklet on the provision for rare diseases across Europe. | Eight European projects were detailed, ranging from the development of national plans for rare diseases (EUROPLAN) to those projects covering single rare diseases such as cystic fibrosis (ECORN-CF) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (CARE-NMD). |
| EAHC Information Leaflets A series of information leaflets about the Agency’s work >>> | General leaflet Public Health Consumer Programme Better Training for Safer Food |
| Better Training for Safer Food 25 page training course booklets for the Agency’s ‘Better Training for Safer Food’ Programme | The information presented in the 3 booklets gave some of the key learning outcomes of the following courses, with additional information and discussion points presented: • Evaluation and Registration of Plant Protection Products • Veterinary and Food Safety Control Checks at EU-approved Seaport Border Inspection Posts • The Development, Implementation and Maintenance of HACCP systems |
Wellcome Trust
Feature
| Feature entitled ‘Classy conversations: exploring Café Sci.’ p.16 Wellcome News, Issue 63, June 2010 >>> | It’s early afternoon, and 40 animated students stream into the light-filled atrium at Stockley Academy, a secondary school in west London. They are gathering for Café Sci, a chance to hear about and discuss some novel, and perhaps controversial science issues...... |
Obesity
| Under pressure (p.17 Wellcome News, Issue 58, April 2009). | Putting on weight generally leads to a rise in blood pressure. Now, a study of a particular group of obese individuals has shown....... |
| Weighty findings (p.17 Wellcome News, Issue 58, April 2009). | Researchers studying the genetic risks of obesity have found six new genetic regions that may affect our behaviour........ |
| Food on the brain (Wellcome Trust website, January 2009) | Scientists link our brain's response to appetising food to our risk of obesity........ |
Profile
| Ringing the changes (p.7 Wellcome News, Issue 59, July 2009). | Professor Derek Bell, appointed Head of Education at the Trust, at the start of 2009, has been instrumental in moves to encourage teachers and pupils to engage with science.......... |
Developmental Biology
| Wise up (p.16 Wellcome News, Issue 58, April 2009). | A study at King's College London has shown that a molecule called Wise controls tooth development by linking together signalling pathways outside cells..... |
| Moved to grow (p.16 Wellcome News, Issue 58, April 2009). | The normal development of an embryo's bones requires the action of muscles. Now, scientists in Dublin have used a novel method to identify two genes..... |
Nature Publishing Group
| Nature Structural Biology website featured articles, with research summaries September 2010 | • Achievements and milestones Achievements in protein structure determination in the past five years have provided clues to the evolutionary, structural and functional relationships among proteins that are not evident from sequence data alone. • Protein pathways Structural characterization can reveal interaction interfaces between the proteins in a pathway and give insight into potential therapeutics |
Magazines & Supplements
| Boxing up the Barn Owl (North Norfolk Living, October 2009). | As the days draw in and the leaves change colour, barn owls swoop silently across the North Norfolk landscape like ghostly apparitions....... |
| Immune mechanisms and herbal medicine (The Times - a serial of articles 2004) | The Pope and Papaya..... Sophie Dahl and Green tea..... Cliff Richard and Ginseng..... Christina Aguilera and Echinacea..... |
| Should the MMR vaccine be compulsory? (The Biologist 2003; 50 No5:244) | A proposed link between the MMR vaccine and autism has led to a decreased uptake in some areas of the UK, resulting in outbreaks of measles and even some deaths...... |
| Is there a case for the MMR vaccine? (Your Children's Health. May 2003) | Do we want to expose our children to the natural viruses to induce immunity or is exposure to the vaccines a better approach?....... |