Pauline Davies is a radio science journalist with an extensive international career in broadcasting and documentary creation or production. She spent 12 years with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), including seven with the World Service in London, where her programs reached audiences of tens of millions worldwide. They included weekly productions such as "Discovery", "Health Matters" and "Science in Action". Among her highly acclaimed special features were a twelve-part series on human origins, "The Million Year March of Humanity", and the award-winning ten-part series, "Who’d Have Thought It?" about serendipitous discoveries. Her topics have been as diverse as Aboriginal health in Australia; the work of the new Library of Alexandria and the Fistula hospital in Ethiopia.
Challenging assignments include reporting from the interior of war-torn Somalia and recording a living donor lung transplant operation in Minneapolis, Minn. Before joining the school, Pauline spent six years as producer in the science unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National in Sydney where she was responsible for six weekly science-based productions, including the long-running flagship program "The Science Show." As professor of practice, Pauline is continuing to make news and documentary items from across the sciences for public broadcasters worldwide. A recent example was a 50 minute report on brain scanning and the law, broadcast on public radio in Austrailia. It was based on a conference organized by the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law and hosted at the U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, Ariz. To listen to the broadcast and read the transcript, see "Neuroscience in the Witness Stand." Another notable recent broadcast "Hooked on the Net" examined the addictive possibilities of internet video gaming.
Pauline created iPopping Podcasts for COM 394, available free to the public (Audio podcast requires ITunes, Download ITunes.)
She is also featured on the ASU Office of the President Podcasts, sharing her experiences of a challenging and diverse broadcasting career in a one-on-one interview with student Nikki Peterson. Listen to the broadcast.
Pauline directs the Outreach and Education and Training components of a major physics and cancer initiative sponsored by the National Cancer Foundation.
Recent features:
A Papua New Guinea Wedding, BBC
