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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Freeman of Steventon
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
7 June 2024
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Alexandra Lee Jessica Freeman

March 1974 (age 50)
Maryland, United States
NationalityBritish
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Alexandra Lee Jessica Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon (born March 1974) is a British science communicator, life peer, and former television producer. She has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2024.

Biography[edit]

Freeman was born in March 1974 in Maryland, United States.[1][2] She studied biological sciences at the University of Oxford, before remaining at the university to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in zoology.[3][4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Butterflies as signal receivers" and was completed in 1998.[5] As a postgraduate, she was a member of Linacre College, Oxford and the Department of Zoology.[5]

From 2000 to 2016, Freeman worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).[3] As a producer or director, she was involved in Walking with Beasts, Life in the Undergrowth, Bang Goes the Theory, Climate Change by Numbers and Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.[6]

In 2016, she joined the University of Cambridge as executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Faculty of Mathematics.[7]

In May 2024, it was announced that she would be made a non-party political life peer and member of the House of Lords.[1] On 5 June 2024, she was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire.[8] She sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.[9]

Selected works[edit]

  • van der Bles, Anne Marthe; van der Linden, Sander; Freeman, Alexandra L. J.; Mitchell, James; Galvao, Ana B.; Zaval, Lisa; Spiegelhalter, David J. (May 2019). "Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science". Royal Society Open Science. 6 (5): 181870. doi:10.1098/rsos.181870. PMC 6549952.
  • van der Bles, Anne Marthe; van der Linden, Sander; Freeman, Alexandra L. J.; Spiegelhalter, David J. (7 April 2020). "The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (14): 7672–7683. doi:10.1073/pnas.1913678117. PMC 7149229.
  • Dryhurst, Sarah; Schneider, Claudia R.; Kerr, John; Freeman, Alexandra L. J.; Recchia, Gabriel; van der Bles, Anne Marthe; Spiegelhalter, David; van der Linden, Sander (2 August 2020). "Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world". Journal of Risk Research. 23 (7–8): 994–1006. doi:10.1080/13669877.2020.1758193.
  • Roozenbeek, Jon; Schneider, Claudia R.; Dryhurst, Sarah; Kerr, John; Freeman, Alexandra L. J.; Recchia, Gabriel; van der Bles, Anne Marthe; van der Linden, Sander (October 2020). "Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world". Royal Society Open Science. 7 (10): 201199. doi:10.1098/rsos.201199.
  • Freeman, Alexandra LJ; Parker, Simon; Noakes, Catherine; Fitzgerald, Shaun; Smyth, Alexandra; Macbeth, Ron; Spiegelhalter, David; Rutter, Harry (December 2021). "Expert elicitation on the relative importance of possible SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and the effectiveness of mitigations" (PDF). BMJ Open. 11 (12): e050869. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050869.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "PRESS RELEASE: Two new non-party-political peers – House of Lords Appointments Commission" (pdf). lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk. House of Lords Appointments Commission. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Alexandra Lee Jessica FREEMAN personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b "ORCID: Alexandra Freeman". orcid.org. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Session 1: Researchers and engagement: Alex Freeman". Sense about Science. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  5. ^ a b Freeman, Alexandra (1998). Butterflies as signal receivers (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Alexandra Freeman". Harding-Zentrum für Risikokompetenz. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  7. ^ "People: Executive Director Dr Alexandra Freeman". Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Crown Office". The Edinburgh Gazette. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  9. ^ "Baroness Freeman of Steventon: Parliamentary career". members.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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