Meet the Team

Here’s the core team behind the fair. As you see, we’re all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Working, freelancing, and retired.
All of us are from Newham and have interest in science and technology and their practical use to benefit our community. We’re hoping to run some informal sessions between the science fairs and (maybe) some hackathons, starting this year. If you’d like to help us, suggest topics or do anything that we haven’t thought of yet, please use the Contact form on this website.

Mavis Wenham

Newham Citizen Science CIC - Director

Mavis Wenham is a qualified youth worker and Social Worker, with a background in youth work….

Joseph Cook

Newham Citizen Science CIC - Director

Joseph Cook leads the UCL Citizen Science Academy based at UCL East in the Olympic Park…

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Lia

“E7 Blackbird”

My project: putting local life on the map! Big paper ones at the Citizen Science Fair – we all get to write on those. A searchable online “signpost” (Newham for Newbies, coming soon)…

Richard Stubbs

Newham Citizen Science CIC - Director

I was born in 1950, studied Biochemistry at Chelsea College, caught politics and in ‘71 turned down a £2,000 pa job to work for £3.50pw as a charity volunteer….

Gavin Sealey

Newham Citizen Science CIC - Director

Retired from careers in teaching and youth work, my passion for personal and community development continues to drive my projects. This is reflected in the working title of a proposal …..

Akik Miah

Newham Citizen Science CIC - Director

With a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of East London, I bring a multidisciplinary background in engineering, design, technical sales, and project management….

Hugh Barnard

Founder of Newham Citizen Science Fair

I studied chemistry at Imperial College London and spent a year in a commercial drugs research laboratory. There were very few computer science degrees in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so I went immediately from chemistry…

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Join the team

We are always looking for enthusiastic people to join our team and bring their expertise, creativity, and positive energy to help us grow and achieve great things together.

Be part of the team.

Newham needs you.

Calling all…

  • Makers, inventors, tinkerers
  • Coders, hackers & data wizards
  • Low-tech, high-tech, no-tech-at-all people
  • Systems-and-strategy types
  • Hands-on creative types
  • “Able to fix anything” types
  • Community-builders
  • History & archives people
  • Hobbyists & specialists
  • Questioning, freethinking, curious people

East London needs you!