Heather Doran

Personal profile

Biography

Heather Doran is the Public Engagement Manager at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee. She is a member of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) committee and the Local Organising Committee for the PCST Conference 2020. In 2015/2016 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship on the communication of science travelling to the USA, Japan and China to explore how major research institutes and individual researchers help foster online engagement through social media. Heather began her involvement in public engagement during her PhD in molecular pharmacology at the University of Aberdeen when she was Editor and co-founder of Au Science Magazine.

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Research Output

3 Other contribution
2 Poster
1 Book

Understanding Forensic Gait Analysis #1

Murray, C. (ed.), Vaughan, P. (ed.), Nabizadeh, G. (ed.), Findlay, L. (ed.), Doran, H. (ed.), Nic Daeid, N. (ed.) & Brown, M., Feb 2020, Dundee: University of Dundee. 12 p. (Understanding Forensic Gait Analysis)

Research output: Book/Report › Book

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Communication and Engagement Jargon

Doran, H., 21 May 2019, 1 p. Dundee : University of Dundee.

Research output: Other contribution

Open Access

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Co-created, collaborative research disrupting the forensic science ecosystem

Doran, H. & Nic Daeid, N., 11 Oct 2018.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

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Creating meaningful engagement via social media

Doran, H., 29 Dec 2018.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

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Is this public engagement with research?

Doran, H., 25 Oct 2018, Dundee : University of Dundee.

Research output: Other contribution

Open Access

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Prizes

Gold Engage Watermark for Public Engagement

Nic Daeid, Niamh (Recipient), Michael Marra (Recipient), Doran, Heather (Recipient), Roy Mudie (Recipient), Adegoke, Oluwasesan (Recipient), Klu, Joyce (Recipient), Comrie, Emma (Recipient), Cole, Christian (Recipient), Menard, Herve (Recipient), Hackman, Lucina (Recipient), Gray, Alexander (Recipient), Barros, Magda (Recipient), Dennison-Wilkins, Lorna (Recipient), Dzetkulicová, Veronika (Recipient), Galais, Virginie (Recipient), Houston, Andrew (Recipient), Inman, Keith (Recipient), Kuffel, Aga (Recipient), Laisney, Oceane (Recipient), Sobreira, Catarina (Recipient), Yu, Sean (Recipient), Zuppello, Micol (Recipient), Menzies, Simon-Lewis (Recipient), Daly, Laura (Recipient), Marj Davis (Recipient), Paul McFadyen (Recipient) & Loic De Carvalho (Recipient), 4 Dec 2019

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

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Public Communication of Science and Technology Network Scientific Committee

Doran, Heather (Recipient), Apr 2018

Prize: Election to learned society

Activities

11 Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
5 Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
4 Schools engagement
2 Festival/Exhibition
2 More
- 1 Participation in conference
- 1 Other

Crime Cafe: Does DNA always hold the answer?

Alexander Gray (Presenter), , Heather Doran (Host), & Alex Prentice (Presenter)

14 May 2019

Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar

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Lochee Family Day at Ancrum Road Primary School

Heather Doran (Contributor), & Roy Mudie (Contributor)

2 Apr 2019

Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition

National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement Engage Conference 2019

Niamh Nic Daeid (Speaker), , Heather Doran (Chair), , Heather Rea (Speaker), & Jenni Chambers (Speaker)

5 Dec 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

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Crime Cafe: Lord Lovat's last resting place

Heather Doran (Organiser), & Lucina Hackman (Speaker)

26 Mar 2019

Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar

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Science Saturday: Family Fun Day with Women in STEM Women's Festival Dundee

Christine Millar (Host), , Heather Doran (Organiser), , Rolf Black (Organiser), , Amy Rogers (Organiser), , Amy Cameron (Organiser), , Catarina Sobreira (Contributor), , Bethany Coull (Contributor), , Daniella Cavellini (Contributor), , Shobna Vasishta (Contributor), , Amy Learmonth (Contributor), , Simone Altmann (Contributor), , Ruth Hamilton (Contributor), , Carmen Escudero-Martinez (Contributor), , Julie Kovarova (Contributor), , Anna Trenaman (Contributor), , Alice Dawson (Contributor), & Nicola Morrice (Contributor)