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- 26 Oct 2022 (Creation)
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Interview with Dee Rawsthorne conducted by Sarah Wilmot. Audio file (Dee Rawsthorne MASTER0001.wav), 1 hour 12.15 minutes Discusses her early life and education, role at the JIC, including working with Harold Woolhouse and subsequent Directors, early outreach work with various departments, the GM debates and changes at the JIC between 1986 and her retirement in 2015.
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Admin History: Dee Rawsthorne (b. 1957- ) BSc Liverpool (Zoology) 1978 (?), PhD Reading (Plant Nematology) 1982 (?), Post Doc., Boyce Thompson Inst., USA. Joined JIC in 1986 as Scientific Assistant to Harold Woolhouse, a few months after husband Steve Rawsthorne joined Woolhouse's Lab. Dee worked for Harold until his retirement in 1989. Dee's role was a mix of secretary and research assistant, she took on various roles, much of what would now come under communications, outreach or education (the Department of Science Communication and Education opened in 1996/7). She continued a similar role under subsequent Directors, working on various projects in different departments including the opening of the new conference centre, organising conferences, with Caroline Dean on the Arabidopsis Research Network, Mike Bevan in the Molecular Biology Department and with Chris Lamb on the GM debates in the 1990s-2000s.