Charlotte Williams is the Head of Communications for the National Nuclear Laboratory. Charlotte grew-up and lives in Leigh with her husband and two boys. She enjoys running and walking to keep healthy, which counteracts her love of baking, something she developed an interest in during Covid using the months of lockdown to cheer family and friends up by baking. In her early years, Charlotte attended Bedford High school where she was very work focussed and remembered for always having a smile on h...
Jun 16, 2021•30 min•Ep. 68
Dr Tim Gregory is an analytical nuclear chemist working at the National Nuclear Laboratory, based on the Sellafield site. He has experience as a meteorite scientist and is active in outreach, talking in schools and on the BBC sharing his passion about space and science. Tim lives in Cumbria and in his free time likes to go running, hiking, canoeing, and practises photography in the country. Tim grew up in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire with his mum and sister. In his younger years he developed a passi...
Jun 09, 2021•37 min•Ep. 66
Robin Taylor is a Senior Fellow at the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory. He lives in Cockermouth, with his wife Anna and three teenage children. Robin grew up in Stoke where he enjoyed school and chemistry in particular as his teacher was very engaging and interactive. Robin went to Manchester University to read Chemistry and continued on to do a PhD in radiochemistry on neutron activation analysis. Robin was successful in getting his research published. After university, Robin joined BNFL in th...
Jun 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 64
Georgia Pawson is a Consultant Analyst a Corporate Risk Associates and the acting chair of the Next Generation Nuclear Industry Council. Georgia Pawson lives in Fulham near where she grew up. She went to boarding school at Wycombe Abbey. Georgia was diagnosed as dyslexic during primary school and found the pressure during her GCSEs overwhelming and decided to move to St Edwards in Oxford to do her A levels in Maths, Chemistry and Geography her where was offered more support with her dyslexia. Ge...
May 26, 2021•27 min•Ep. 63
Arun Khuttan is an Engineer at Magnox Ltd, a member of the Next Generation Nuclear Industry Council and also the COP26 lead for the UK Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network. Arun grew up in Slough and went to Herschel Grammar School and now lives in Bristol with friends. He enjoyed sciences at school as well as music where he played an Indian instrument called the dhol. He then studied A-Levels in Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology to potentially go down the medical route, encouraged by his...
May 19, 2021•32 min•Ep. 61
Maggie Brown works with EDF UK at their Hinkley Point C site. She leads on Supplier Relationship Management and previously led their innovation programme. Maggie grew up in Ottawa Canada and now lives in Bristol with husband Sam and two-year old Mya. In 2003, Maggie studied for a BA in Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Following this period of study, she travelled across Australia, Asia, Mexico and Central America. Maggie then took the bold decision and moved to London to do...
May 12, 2021•29 min•Ep. 60
Callum Thomas is the founder and CEO of Thomas Thor Associates providing recruitment, executive search and consulting services to the global nuclear industry and major infrastructure projects. Callum is also Chairman of KeySource Global. He is also a co-founder with Monica Mwanje of Inclusion and Diversity in Nuclear which aims to support and enable the industry to achieve diversity and inclusion in their teams. Callum spent the first six years of his life in Brighton and then moved to grow up i...
May 05, 2021•37 min•Ep. 59
Fiona Reilly is Managing Director of FiRe Energy and a Strategic Advisory Board member of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) and Non-Executive Director of Ansaldo Nuclear. Fiona grew up in a village called Reed in the Ribble Valley and went to school in Burnley. She now lives in Weighbridge. Fiona studied Law at university before completing a master’s level with International Business, Trade and Tax at The University of Manchester and qualified as lawyer in Lancashire. Throwing herself in at...
Apr 28, 2021•32 min•Ep. 58
Tom Greatex is a Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA). Tom was born in Ashford in Kent and grew up in Tunbridge Wells, attending a local grammar school. During his time at school, he learnt to question and challenge actions and has continued to so throughout his career. Tom now lives in in Oxfordshire near Culham and is married to Laura, with twin daughters Katie and Jessica. Tom went to university at London School of Economics (LSE) where he studied politics. Formerly MP fo...
Apr 21, 2021•44 min•Ep. 57
Nichola grew up in Warrington in Appleton and still lives in Warrington now with her husband Chris, son Harry and four dogs. Nichola thought that she wasn’t particularly academic at school and preferred art and drama. She went on to study Health & Social Care at College with the idea of becoming a Social Worker whilst working part time at British Telecom (BT) as a Sales Advisor. She then went on to work at BT full time and really enjoyed the money she was earning. Nichola then went on to bec...
Apr 14, 2021•39 min•Ep. 56
Julianne joined PA Consulting last year and is Global Head of Nuclear. She also sponsors the PA’s Women Networks and works with Women in Nuclear on their leadership programme. She lives in Southport with her husband David also known as ‘Mr A’ and two children Oliver and Lucy who are at primary school age - and has been doing plenty of home schooling with them! Julianne grew up in Levenshulme, Manchester and moved to Southport with her family to start a hotel business. She spent most of her youth...
Apr 07, 2021•37 min•Ep. 55
Mike lives in Preston with Wife Janet and his son and daughter who live nearby. He grew up in West Cumbria and lived in a small village Keekle in a single row of houses between Cleator Moor and Whitehaven. He went to Whitehaven Grammar School and then went on to West Cumbria College in 1976. Mike joined Calder Hall power station in 1975 when he was eighteen and spent much of his early career at Sellafield Ltd starting out as an Accountant. He joined Westinghouse in 2004 as the Director of Spring...
Mar 31, 2021•47 min•Ep. 54
Reuben grew up in Hawarth, Yorkshire and then moved to Cumbria before starting secondary school in Millom. Reuben enjoyed taking part in competitive sports when he was younger and particularly enjoyed tennis. He was also heavily involved in the Air Cadets and after four years at the Air Cadets he became the highest ranked cadet in his squadron. Reuben’s goal up until he was sixteen was to be a pilot, however due to his eyesight deteriorating, he went down the Chemistry route instead after being ...
Mar 26, 2021•17 min•Ep. 53
Jack Gritt lives in Gloucestershire with her 2 dogs and is the founding member and former president of Women in Nuclear UK and still works as an advisor and is an executive board member of Women in Nuclear Global. She has 3 children who all live locally to her. In her early years she grew up in Buckinghamshire. She started out her journey by starting an apprenticeship in hairdressing and then at 18 she started her own beauty therapy business for a couple of years. She soon realised this wasn’t f...
Mar 24, 2021•42 min•Ep. 52
Clare Barlow lives in Preston with her husband Warren and daughter Hannah and is the HR Director and Board Member at the National Nuclear Laboratory. Clare grew up in Liverpool and really enjoyed school. She loved maths and went on to do maths A level. After leaving school, Clare decided against going to university and went on to work at CBS Batteries as an Accountancy Trainee where she made the most of all the opportunities that came her way. Clare then went back to study and get her degree in ...
Mar 22, 2021•35 min•Ep. 51
Andrew Sherry is Special Advisor UK's National Nuclear Laboratory and Research Professor at The University of Manchester. He lives in Manchester with his wife Sue and has two grown up daughters. Andrew grew up in South East London and went to school at Dulwich College. He really loved sports and music and wasn’t particularly academic during his time at school. After not getting the A level results he’d hoped for, Andrew was offered a place through clearing at The University of Manchester to stud...
Mar 17, 2021•40 min•Ep. 50
Nassia Tzelepi was fascinated by science from a young age growing up in Greece. It led her to read Molecular and Laser Physics at the University in Crete. Her career journey took her from 40°C heat in Greece to horizontal rain in West Cumbria to work in the UK nuclear industry. Nassia talks about discovering her purpose and her inner desire see the positive impact of science in the real world; on energy and the environment. As a materials expert, Nassia shares her passion to contribute to a grea...
Mar 12, 2021•19 min•Ep. 49
Professor Gerry Thomas is Director of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank and Professor of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College London. She has an experienced career in research, including becoming a Research Associate at the Department of Pathology in the University of Wales, College of Medicine and then became an MRC Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Wales after completing her PhD. Gerry grew up in Rugby and Leicestershire and now lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband Peter, who she met...
Mar 10, 2021•34 min•Ep. 48
Dame Sue Ion, is an independent expert and advisor on nuclear power. Sue initially started life in Carlisle before moving to Preston at the age of eight. Sue went to Penwortham Girls Grammar School where she enjoyed the science subjects and learnt things that weren’t in the syllabus in the science club. Her chemistry teacher introduced her to materials science, a mixture of physics and chemistry which explained while materials failed. Following this inspiration, it encouraged Sue to go to Imperi...
Mar 03, 2021•35 min•Ep. 47
Robert is the Senior Strategic and Economic Advisor for the Nuclear Innovation Research office (NIRO) within the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Robert was born in Vancouver, Canada and now lives in Cumbria and is a qualified Sub-Aqua Ocean Diver and enjoys walking and cycling in his free time as well as volunteering. Robert enjoyed school and was always inquisitive, wanting to learn more, with a why and more mindset. He was inspired from the age of 14 by URENCO gi...
Feb 24, 2021•19 min•Ep. 46
Suzy Hobbs Baker is co-founder of the Good Energy Collective. Suzy has experience in communications, with reference to advanced nuclear policy and governance and is committed to community-centred clean energy adoption. Suzy grew up in Tokyo then Atlanta Georgia before spending 10 years in western North Carolina. Suzy is now based in Washington DC with her husband Ted and two boys. She studied fine art at the Appalachian State University, where she became interested in Mel Chin, a conceptual visu...
Feb 17, 2021•33 min•Ep. 45
Ismaeel Patel is an Electrical and Instrumentation Technical Support Engineer at National Nuclear Laboratory. He lives in Blackburn, Lancashire with his family. At school Ismaeel enjoyed playing football and also enjoyed creative subjects including IT. After his GCSE’s he studied for an ONC in Electrical Engineering at Blackburn College. Having been offered places to study Electronic and Electrical Engineering at a number of universities, he decided to go down the apprenticeship route. Ismaeel s...
Feb 12, 2021•23 min•Ep. 44
Colin Bailey is President and Principal of Queen Mary University of London. Colin grew up in Hillingdon and went to Abbotsfield Boys School where he loved playing football resulting in a spell with QPR youth team. Colin started studying engineering from a young age and attended Slough College to study civil engineering as part of an apprenticeship. After completing his ONC, Colin secured a job at Cameron Taylor Partners, where he got a lot more training on his drawing to become a professional dr...
Feb 10, 2021•32 min•Ep. 43
Annalise Beddard is a Project Management Degree Apprentice at the Nuclear Skills Strategy Group, where she is also a member of the Nuclear Institute’s Young Generation. Annalise lives in Culcheth in Warrington, which is where she grew up and went to high school. It was at high school that she realised her passion for engineering as she loved being hands on and practical. After successfully completing her GCSEs, Annalise went to UTC Warrington where she studied Engineering and after a year decide...
Feb 08, 2021•19 min•Ep. 42
Paul is Chief Executive of the National Nuclear Laboratory. He is also Chair of the Association of Innovation, Research and Technology Organisations (AIRTO), Chair of BHR Group and a Non-Executive Director at the National Physical Laboratory. If that wasn’t enough, he also holds a professorial position at the University of Manchester in nuclear technology. Paul lives in Cheshire with his wife Victoria and three boys. He studied Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham before begi...
Feb 03, 2021•32 min•Ep. 41
Sheila is an Internal Regulator for Nuclear Integrity in the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory. Having grown up in Fort William Sheila now lives in West Cumbria with her husband Ian and their teenage son. At school, Sheila enjoyed science and music and went on to study maths, chemistry, and physics at A-Level. Sheila then studied for a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and after finishing university, she joined BNFL as a graduate trainee chemical engineer....
Jan 27, 2021•32 min•Ep. 40
Mark is a Senior Technical Advisor at NIRO (Nuclear Innovation and Research Office). He initially grew up in the North Yorkshire Dales before moving around the UK and Germany owing to his Father being in Airforce. He now lives in Anglesey with husband Bob and their two cats. Mark had a love for Chemistry at school and he attended the University of Warwick where he completed a BSc in Chemistry with Industrial Environmental Chemistry. Mark started out in nuclear as a year in industry Chemistry Stu...
Jan 20, 2021•29 min•Ep. 39
Stuart is Managing Director of Hinkley Point C, the new nuclear power station being built in Somerset. He lives in Worcester and is married to Alison and they have three grown-up children and five grandchildren. Stuart grew up in the village of Standish Lower Ground near Wigan and went to Shevington High School. From here, he started an electrical apprenticeship at the local mail order factory Great Universal Stores. After finishing his apprenticeship, Stuart joined the nuclear industry at Heysh...
Jan 13, 2021•28 min•Ep. 38
Susan grew up in Harrogate and now lives in York with her husband Mick and has two grown-up children. Susan attended Rosett High School where she enjoyed learning and sport and feels privileged to have had excellent teachers and very good friends. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Politics at Northumbria University and is multilingual. Susan spent many times abroad on foreign exchange trips and learnt to grow as a person. After leaving university Susan was unsure of the p...
Jan 06, 2021•23 min•Ep. 37
Air Chief Marshall Sir Simon Bryant, is a former Royal Air Force officer, who served as Commander-in-Chief of Air Command, and who now runs his own company, Simon Bryant Consultancy Ltd. Simon lives near Chichester, with his wife Helen and has two grown children and went to Stamford School in Lincolnshire. He attended Nottingham University to study Geography and from here, following in his father’s footsteps, Simon joined the RAF which spanned a 35-year career. He was commissioned as a universit...
Dec 30, 2020•28 min•Ep. 36
