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Elinor Thomas

Brisbane, Australia

Bio

A communicator by profession and vocation. I worked as a high school science teacher in the UK for four years before moving to Australia to try something new. Communicating new ideas is not a vocation I could ignore, and I completed my Masters of Journalism at QUT in 2015. Since then I have written science articles for my blog, and I have worked for a not-for-profit organisation, writing articles for their website. I learned a great deal about the barriers to employment faced by people with disability. I worked hard to source and create articles for that organisation, which would help to break down those barriers. Science communication has always been at the core of what I do. My experience as a teacher taught me how to summarise complex research into more accessible, jargon-free language. Now I continue to do some casual work in the not-for-profit sector, but I also work as a freelance journalist.