Heather Doran is the Public Engagement Manager at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee. She is the Science Editor for The Biochemist and Secretary of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST). She was a co-host of the PCST Conference 2020 + 1.  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.