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Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon

Associate Professor

Department : Dept of Science & Technology Studies

Faculty : Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences

Address : G01 GROUND FLOOR
FRONT LODGES
GOWER STREET
LONDON
WC1E 6BT

Languages spoken fluently (other than English) : English, French

+44 (0)20 7679 3490

j.gouyon@ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon is Associate Professor in Science Communication. His research focuses on science and wildlife films and television, science journalism and the history of popular science. In 2019 he published a monograph on the history of wildlife television in Britain ("BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough", Palgrave). He also publishes on the history of the BBC science series "Horizon", as well as on the history of the Science Museum.

Research groups:

Department of Science and Technology Studies /sts/research-0

Research publications:

Gouyon, J.-B. (2019). BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough, London: Palgrave-MacMillan
Gouyon, J.B. (2018). ‘From engaged citizen to lone hero. Nobel Prize laureates on British television, 1962-2004’, Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 27 (4): 446-57
Gouyon, J.-B. (2016). Invited essay: ‘Science and film-making’, Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 25 (1): 17-30
Gouyon, J.-B. (2016). ‘“You can’t make a film about mice just by going out into a meadow and looking at mice”. Staging as Knowledge Production in Natural History Film-making’. In M. Willis (Ed.), Staging Science, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-103
Gouyon, J.-B. (2014). ‘Making science at home. Visual displays of technoscientific knowledge at the Science Museum and on television in post-war Britain’, History and Technology, Vol. 30 (1-2): 37-60.
Gouyon, J.-B. (2014). ‘“Something simple and striking, if not amusing”. The Freedom 7 Special Exhibition at the Science Museum in 1965.’, The Science Museum Group Journal, Issue 01, Spring 2014.
Gouyon, J.-B. (2011). ‘The BBC Natural History Unit: Instituting natural history film-making in Britain’, History of Science, Vol. 49 (4): 425-451.
Gouyon, J.-B. (2011). ‘From Kearton to Attenborough – fashioning the telenaturalist’s identity’, History of Science, Vol. 49 (1): 25-60.

Personal web address: /sts/people/dr-jean-baptiste-gouyon

Professional Affiliations and Appointments:

Honorary Research Associate of the Science Museum

Media Experience:

Radio Print

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Gouyon, J.-B., 2021, ‘Why David Attenborough cannot be replaced’. The Conversation, 5 January 2021:
Gouyon, J.-B., 2020, ‘Life in the Animal World: a revolution in wildlife TV’, BBC History Research Blog, 11 November 2020:
Podcast: Segment in the RTE1 Radio Show Mooney Goes Wild, 30 March 2020 episode:
Gouyon, J.-B., 2019, ‘Greenwashing? Why wildlife TV is finally engaging with the climate emergency’, The Conversation, 09 December 2019

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