Niall is the Creative Director of Science in Public, a science communication and PR business he founded with Sarah Brooker in 2006.

He helps researchers communicate their research to the public, media, government and industry, so that it makes a difference.

Brought up in Hadleigh, Suffolk in the UK, Niall completed a biology degree at Durham University before running away to the Antipodes.

He’s worked with several NCRIS capabilities, though he still struggles to remember what the ‘S’ stands for.

Some career highlights include:

Story-telling and publicity for the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes (2004-2018), L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowships (2007-2015), the Eureka Prizes (2003-2006; 2013-2015), and the Clunies Ross Foundation (1998-2004).
Working with CERN to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson
Conference director, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists/ASC in Melbourne in 2007
Re-building the public profile of CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (1988-1998) and responding to disease outbreaks such as Hendra virus, bat lyssavirus and pilchard deaths, and the escape of rabbit calicivirus from its island trial.