Kathryn Jeffs
I have fond memories of the University of Derby where I was surrounded with students with the same passions.
”Kathryn Jeffs, University of Derby graduate, now a BBC Producer.
Kathryn Jeffs graduated in 1995 with BSc Biological Imaging
Kathryn said: "I have always had a passion for communicating and I have fond memories of the University of Derby where I was surrounded with students with the same passions.
I chose science because I wanted to engage with the world and explore wild life and acquire fact based knowledge.
My course was niche at the University of Derby which enabled me to be a stronger candidate amongst my peer competitors.
A career in science is exciting; my passion for wildlife started at a very early age and grew once I had seen the documentary by Sir David Attenborough about killer whales and sea lions. In my view this documentary changed the way that people think about the natural world. TV is a powerful tool and brings complex topics to a mass audience."
Kathryn is now a BBC Producer for BBC 1 series Frozen Planet
"I started at the BBC as a researcher speaking to scientists who are the life-blood of any wildlife programme. I was working in the Natural History Unit at the BBC in Bristol.
I then went on to work in the field and spent four years working on Frozen Planet, which took 7,000 crew hours to shoot in the Antarctic with the temperature plummeting to -50 degrees at times."
Frozen Planet is on BBC1 later in 2011.
