About me
Kimberley Freeman joined the Royal Society as Head of Public Engagement in 2024. She is responsible for flagship engagement programmes including the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition, the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and Young People’s Science Book Prize, the Places of Science funding scheme, and for supporting Royal Society funded researchers to engage meaningfully as part of their work.
Before joining the Society, Kimberley was Director of the Centre for Public Engagement at Queen Mary University, the first university to gain an National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) Platinum Engage Watermark. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellowship in 2019 and has held public engagement roles at the Medical Research Council (MRC), University College London, and the Royal College of Pathologists.
