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The original full team of GSC Staff Scientists
 "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties" - Doug Larson


Back row:
Ben Craven (Science Advisor); Gillian Lang (Floor 1); John-Paul Sumner (Floor 3); Leigh Fish (e-Learning & Labs)
Front row:
Rob Hoyle (Science Shows); Amanda Jopling (Floor 2); Mario Di Maggio (Planetarium)
 		  

 

 

 

 

 
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When Staff Scientists were real Staff Scientists:


Real heroes never die
Ben Craven and Amanda Jopling performing the superb Barbershop Science show at GSC in April 2005

 
A job for 007:

 

 

 

 
 
Dungeon Days:

Celebrating the end of a long school season (Jun 02)		  


Science communicators leave their mark (Jun 02)
   

 

Hands-on education		  


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before the 05 May 2002 astronomy field trip
     

"I wish she'd hurry up so I can use her PC"
 		  
Re-creating the past
 

How this web page (nearly) helped Leigh Fish provide airport photo ID on the day he left GSC:
 

 

 

 

With our business cards
attached
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"As things stand we BIG members don't get a huge
amount of recognition or official encouragement, do we?

In one sense, it's probably better this way because those who do this work
for love do it better than those who do it for money. Relatively little of
the British tidal wave of Millennium science centre spending found its way
to our pockets, did it? I was grateful for a nice Millennium grant for a
new Blown-up Biology show, which helped and encouraged me immensely. The
recognition encouraged me as much as the money.

But most of the spending went on "packaging" and "packaging specialists"
(architects and visitor-attraction-designers and marketing) rather than on
phenomenon-centred content and phenomenon-centred wondersmiths. And now the
consultants are scratching their heads and tutting over business plans and
financial models and marketing (I heard them at the ECSITE Conference) and
STILL overlooking the missing factor, for which people vote with their feet"

BIG Chat comment
19/12/03