Let’s talk about us
StoryCog may be a small company, but in the last month we’ve grown rapidly. Mind you, any percentage growth is high when you’re starting from zero.
Jonathan Sanderson
StoryCog’s director is former television producer Jonathan Sanderson. His background is in popular science programmes, including a long stint making what were at the time the UK’s only science entertainment series for children.
It’s not yet clear if Jonathan has finally escaped the clutches of television, but since 2006 he’s been working primarily in the science communication sector. He’s recently worked with the Beacons for Public Engagement, the Science Communication Unit at UWE, Bristol, Science Made Simple, and others.
Jonathan will doubtless write more about himself in due course, once he’s got over the initial shock of the whole ‘third person’ thing. In the meantime, he occasionally blogs at The Daily Grind, and frequently tweets as @jjsanderson.
Alom Shaha
Another former TV producer, Alom returned to education a few years ago and now teaches part-time in a north London comprehensive. He continues to make films, present live shows, write, and agitate in favour of meeting teachers’ needs. He plays the part of ‘angry young man’ perfectly, though in practice he’s neither particularly angry nor notably young.
Alom is StoryCog’s de facto Development Exec, driving project bids and pushing ahead with our development slate. Which is to say: he bullies Jonathan into getting stuff done.
Alom blogs at his own site, tweets, and knows quite a lot about why science is important.
Julianna Photopoulos
Newcomer Julianna is notable for several things: she runs the SciCast project, has more degrees than seems possible for anyone her age, and nobody can get her name right. She joined StoryCog just in time to be second camera/assistant/gopher/runner/sound op/script supervisor/clapper loader/stagehand on a shoot at the Royal Institution. Things haven’t calmed down much for her since.