Katherine Bellingham (born 1963)[1] is a British engineer and television presenter known for her role presenting the BBC1 science show Tomorrow's World from 1990 to 1994.[1] Following a period pursuing other interests and raising children, she resumed her broadcasting career in 2010.
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A World of STEM Opportunities: Kate Bellingham
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INWED 2022 | Kate Bellingham, UCL Centre for Engineering Education
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Kate Bellingham talks about her initiative 'School Gate SET'
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I'm Kate Bellingham, I'm here to give a public lecture called a world of STEM opportunities. My background is I've worked in STEM, I've studied STEM, I've also been a TV and radio presenter presenter STEM stands for Science, Technology Engineering and Maths and it means all those subjects, whether there's cross-curricular, you're using them together or whether you're using them separately but increasingly at there's an understanding that these are all really useful subjects for life and they're subjects that open doors. What I'd like to do is inspire people to think about the range of opportunities there are from studying STEM subjects and also to think, just a moment, that could be me, I could do something like if it's a young person or if it's an older person who have influence at the youngsters to go away and say did you realise that that you can use maths in this area or that to go into this kind of area that you're going to be be using Science. Studying in STEM is a vital part a building that spring board, that that trampoline to bounce you off into the future and it's an opportunity that we've all got at whatever age we're at and I encourage everybody to pursue it. I often hear people go yeah I've heard about stem but and the but might be oh I don't think I'm clever enough and the answer is there's something for everybody at every level another but is but you only do that if you want go on to be a scientist don't you and the answer is no, actually you do this because it takes it to a whole load of places. And to be honest if you don't continue with STEM you're actually closing doors and the other but to get his but do people like me do something like that the answer is absolutely. There are so many opportunities but there's also an opportunity to be the kind of person who doesn't just have a job in the future but creates the future and if you wanna be somebody who creates what the future is going to be then STEM is definitely the place to be
Early life
Bellingham was born in Buckrose, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at the independent Mount School[2] in York, followed by the Oxford University, where she studied physics. She graduated in 1984.[1] She earned her MSc in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering from University of Hertfordshire.[3]
Career
Broadcasting
Bellingham was a BBC radio engineer working in the BBC Broadcasting House in 1988 when she was selected to co-host the annual Faraday Lecture sponsored by the Institution of Electrical Engineers – a tour of live shows for school pupils around the UK. A BBC Schools producer saw her perform and she was offered a presenting role on a new Design and Technology programme called Techno.
She returned to her engineering training, but then applied for Tomorrow's World and joined the team of presenters working on the show in 1990 for four years.
Programmes she has presented include:
- Radio Five Live – The Acid Test from 1994 to 1997 and Splitting the Difference in 1996
- BBC School Radio
- Radio 4 – Testing Times (four-part series in November 1999)
- BBC2 – Working in Engineering in 1999
- The Open University
- Children's ITV – The Big Bang from 1996 to 2004
After around five years of regular television work, hosting numerous live events and presenting corporate video programmes, Bellingham decided to focus first on her young family and then to follow her core professional interest by returning to university to secure an MSc in Electronics.
Promotion of engineering (especially for women)
She trained and then worked as a maths teacher until July 2007, but has returned to media work, and to promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) to general public audiences, particularly school pupils. She is the DCSF's STEM Careers Champion (NSCC), Education Ambassador for the Bloodhound Engineering Adventure. Bellingham returned to TV screens in March 2010[4] as a regular co-presenter for Museum of Life a documentary series for BBC2 about the Natural History Museum. She was one of the celebrity judges at the National Science + Engineering Competition at The Big Bang Fair in March 2012, which rewards students who have achieved excellence in a science, technology, engineering or maths project and awarded prizes for the Talent 2030 National Engineering Competition for Girls in 2015.[citation needed]
She was also involved with the British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) in October 2010,[5] an event, organised by British-based Eureka and New Electronics, which aims to promote the engineering achievements of British companies. During the awards Kate wore the "e-dress"[6] (designed by Abigail Williams from Amman Valley School and created by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz of CuteCircuit), discussed the role of Design Technology (DT) in schools and its significance to British Engineering in the future.
Awards
In 1997, she received an honorary doctorate in technology from Staffordshire University. In 2003, she received an MSc in Electronics from the University of Hertfordshire. She is President of Young Engineers,[7] the national network of engineering clubs in schools and colleges.[8] She is also a Patron of WISE, a charitable organisation that encourages young women to pursue careers in Science, Engineering and Construction.[9]
In 2011 she was awarded a Women of Outstanding Achievement Award, partly in recognition for her work as National STEM Co-Ordinator for Sheffield Hallam University's Centre for Science Education.[10]
Personal life
Bellingham is married to BBC maintenance engineer, Martin Young.[11] They have two children[11] and settled in Hertfordshire.[12]
References
- ^ a b c Royal Society of Chemistry – see Curriculum Vitae image below article
- ^ Mount School
- ^ "Profile: Tomorrow's careers". rsc.org/. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ^ Bellingham, Kate (18 January 2010). "How maths made my career". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "British Engineering Excellence Awards". Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ e-dress designer and creators | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- ^ "Best Product Reviews and Guides". Youngeng.org. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ "About Kate". Kate Bellingham - Official Site katebellingham.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ WISE Patrons Archived 31 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kate Bellingham - The winners 2011 - Women of Outstanding Achievement 2011 - For women - The UKRC". 17 September 2011. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ a b "About Kate". katebellingham.com. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ^ "UWE Bristol awards honorary degree to Kate Bellingham". UWE Bristol: News. University of the West of England. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
External links
- Kate Bellingham's Official Website
- Her Agent
- Kate Bellingham at IMDb
- Science: So what?
- Young Engineers
- Receiving a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in June 2004.
News items
Audio clips
Video clips
- Tomorrow's World 15 April 1994 from the BBC Archive
This page was last edited on 20 May 2024, at 19:39