Stephen Grant White

The British Psychological Society,
48, Princess Road East,
Leicester
LE1 7DR UK

Present employment:
The British Psychological Society (1985 to date)
Director of Communications

My Directorate responsibilities include: internal and external communications; press/media and parliamentary relations; responses to Government and NGO consultation documents; ten primary science Journals; book publishing via Blackwell; pre-print and print; monthly house publication, The Psychologist (circulation circa 42,000); subsystem publications; public engagement events and small grants scheme; current staff of 30.

Member of the Senior Management Team.

Publications:
Guide for Publicity Officers (NALGO, 1979)
Guide for Recruitment Officers (NALGO, 1981)
Media Handbook (BPS, 1987)
Information Pack (BPS, 1988)
Written Evidence for the Outside World. Taylor R and White S (BPS, 1991)
Hitting the Headlines: a practical guide to the media. White S, Evans P, Mihill C and Tysoe M (BPS Books, 1993)
The media and scientists (The Physiological Society Bulletin, 1994)
Understanding the media understanding science (The Biologist, 1994)
Dealing with the media (Chapter in Professional Psychology Handbook, BPS Books, 1995)
Press conferences & Press briefings. Media releases. Setting up and running a press service. Facilities at scientific meetings (Series of booklets. COPUS/Royal Society, 1994/5/6)
Media Guide (COPUS/Royal Society, 2001)

Conference papers:
Psychology and the media (BPS Scottish Branch Conference, 1990)
The Society, Psychologists and the Media (BPS London Conference, 1991)
Some of my best friends are journalists (Biochemical Society Conference, 1992)
The learned society and the public understanding of science (Education for Scientific Literacy Conference, Science Museum, 1994)
What is news and why? (Biotechnology in European Society Conference, Hague, 1994)
Facing up to the outside world: what we could achieve (British Association Festival, 1994)
Science and the parliamentary process (British Association Festival, 1995)
PR for learned societies (ALPSP, 1995)
Has anything changed? (British Association Festival, 1996)
Who to talk to, what to say (British Association Festival, 1997)
50 calls a day and 300 cuttings a week (5th International PCST Conference, Berlin, 1998)
What is news? (ALPSP, 2002)

Extra curricula:
Founder and first Chair of STEMPRA (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine Public Relations Association (1992 96)

Organiser and tutor on various communications and media skills course for a variety of external organisations: Wellcome Trust; European Space Agency; Royal Society; COPUS; CERN; Cancer Research UK; British Association; British Council; Foundation for Science and Technology; Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences; Unilever; Glaxo; EPSRC; PPARC; MRC; Institute of Physics; Association of Clinical Biochemists; Society for Endocrinology; British Antarctic Survey, British Society for Immunology; Institute of Materials; Institute of Food Research; Universities of Oxford, Leicester, Dundee, Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Imperial, Staffordshire, UWE, Edinburgh, Glasgow. Delegates have ranged from postgraduates to heads of organisation.

Commissioning Editor SPA (Science and Public Affairs Royal Society/British Association. 1993 98).

Member of EPSRC Grant Awarding Panel (Partnerships for Public Understanding. 1998 to date).

Member of EU Framework V and VI Panel (Public understanding grants. 1999 to date).

Honorary Lecturer in Psychology, University of Kent. (2001 to date).

Professional Bodies:
Institute of Public Relations (IPR); National Union of Journalists (NUJ); Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine Public Relations Association (STEMPRA); Association of British Science Writers (ABSW); International Science Writers Association (ISWA); British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).