Tutors' Biographies

Wendy Barnaby (Broadcast Journalist)

Wendy Barnaby is a freelance journalist and former chairman of the Association of British Science Writers. Wendy is Editor of Science & Public Affairs, the magazine published by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and has written for many publications, including Nature and New Scientist.

She makes radio science programmes for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and her radio work has been shortlisted for the prestigious GlaxoSmithKline annual awards for excellence in science journalism.

Wendy teaches science writing on two postgraduate university courses: the MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College London; and the MSc in Science, Culture and Communication at the University of Bath.

A graduate of Sydney University, Wendy joined the Australian diplomatic corps before switching to journalism. Among her publications, The Plague Makers (Vision, latest ed 2002), gives a general audience an insight into biological warfare.

Maryon Tysoe (Journalist and Psychologist)

Dr Maryon Tysoe is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of The British Psychological Society.

Maryon held research and teaching posts at the Universities of Surrey, Sussex and Kent before deciding to write full-time.

While psychology correspondent on the weekly magazine New Society, she won the Periodical Publishers Association award for Technical Writer of the Year, regarded as the ‘Oscar’ for specialist writing in UK magazines.

Since then Maryon has written several books aimed at communicating academic research accurately to a lay audience in an accessible and engaging way, one of which, Love Isn’t Quite Enough: The Psychology of Male-Female Relationships, reached number 48 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

She has also broadcast on radio (BBC Radio 4 in particular) and television, and has written for magazines and national newspapers (e.g. The Guardian and The Independent).