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United Kingdom Sue Nelson is an award-winning science journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker, known for her contributions to BBC radio and television.
Sue Nelson is an award-winning science journalist and a co-director of Boffin Media. She is also involved in filmmaking, radio and podcast production, broadcasting, writing, media training, and digital content provision, specializing in science and engineering.
Sue Nelson makes films for the European Space Agency.
In 2018, Sue Nelson was taken to SAI International School with the British Council.
Sue Nelson was born on 5 June 1961. She studied physics at University College Cardiff. Her career in broadcasting began with presenting “Formula Five” on BBC Radio 5 from 1990 to 1994. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nelson established herself as a prominent science correspondent, covering science and technology for BBC News 24 and BBC Television News from 1997 to 2005. She was also a presenter for “The Material World” on BBC Radio 4. In 2004, Nelson was awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, further developing her expertise in journalism.
Nelson continued to expand her work in science communication, presenting several science series on BBC Radio 4, including “Britain’s Modern Brunels” and “Citizen Scientist” in 2006. She also produced “Women with the Right Stuff” for the BBC World Service. In 2008, she began presenting the Planet Earth podcasts. Her editorial experience includes serving as editor of “The Biologist” in 2010. Nelson makes films for the European Space Agency and co-directs Boffin Media, where she hosts the “Space Boffins” podcast. This podcast has featured notable guests such as Buzz Aldrin, Eileen Collins, Helen Sharman, and Tim Peake. Her work includes the 2017 BBC World Service documentary “Before I Go,” and in 2018, she visited SAI International School with the British Council. In 2022, at the age of 60, Nelson was diagnosed with autism and subsequently shared her personal journey to understand the condition.
Nelson is also an author. Her published works include “How to Clone the Perfect Blonde” which she co-wrote in 2004, “How to Live Forever: Lives Less Ordinary” in 2011, and “Wally Funk’s Race for Space: On the Road with a Forgotten Pioneer of Aviation,” which focuses on Wally Funk of the Mercury 13, released in 2018. Her contributions to science journalism have been recognized with awards such as the Association of British Science Writer’s Award, the BT Technology Journalist Award for “Robo Sapiens,” the Glaxo Wellcome Science Writers’ Award, and the New York Festival International Radio Program Award in 2018.
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