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Alexandra Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon
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. BiographyFreeman 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 1998 doctoral thesis was titled "Butterflies as Signal Receivers" and was supervised by Tim Guilford.[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 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, Freeman joined the University of Cambridge as executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Faculty of Mathematics.[7] In 2018 Freeman proposed a new approach to scientific publishing in the form of the Octopus platform designed to publish 'smaller units of publication' and to promote the principles of open science.[8] In 2021 Octopus received a grant from Research England to develop the platform into a global service.[9] Freeman was recommended for appointment as a non-party-political life peer by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in May 2024.[1] She had applied for the role after hearing a member of the House of Lords speak on the radio about the need for more peers who could understand scientific evidence.[10][11] She was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire, on 5 June 2024,[12] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 29 July as a crossbencher.[13][14] Selected works
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