Hannah Devlin

Devlin attended St Bede's College, Manchester, where she studied A-Levels in Maths, Physics, French and General Studies.^[2] She completed an undergraduate degree in physics at Imperial College London in 2004^[2] She has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in functional magnetic resonance imaging from the University of Oxford for research supervised by Peter Jezzard.^[1][3][4] In 2006, whilst Devlin was a DPhil student, she worked for The Times on a British Science Association Media Fellowship.^[5] She began her career as a journalist whilst completing her postgraduate studies.^[6][7] She was a finalist for the Young Science Writers award.^[8]

Devlin worked for Research Fortnight for a year, before getting a permanent job at The Times in 2009.^[2][9][10]

In 2015, Devlin was appointed to The Guardian.^[11] She works as the science correspondent for The Guardian,^[12] as well as presenting their podcast Science Weekly.^[13][14][15] Devlin has also written for the journal Science.^[16] In 2017 she gave a keynote talk at the Human Tissue Association's annual conference.^[17] She has been shortlisted for the 2017 The Press Awards Science Journalist of the Year.

Devlin is an advocate for women in science.^[18] In 2011 she chaired a debate with Athene Donald, Ottoline Leyser and Keith Laws called Women of science, do you know your place?.^[19][20] She has contributed opinion pieces such as Why don't women win Nobel science prizes?^[21] and Why are there so few women in tech? The truth behind the Google memo.^[22]