Biography

About me

Lorelly Ann Wilson FRSC, C.Chem. C.Sci, Hon.FBAASc.
Married with grown-up children.

• Trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (2004 - )
• Chair MOSI Corporate Governance committee (2007 - )
• North Wales Science Council Non-executive Director (2005 - )
• Advisory Board NW Science Learning Centre (2004 – )
• British Chemicals Dist. & Traders Association Science education advisor (2003 - )
• Chester University:- External Member Centre for Science Communication (2000 - )
• EPSRC Peer Review College:- Public Understanding of Science (2003 - )
• British Association NW Branch Hon. Secretary (1997 – )
• British Association Council Investment Committee (2002 – )
• Advisory Board Keesing’s Annual Register (2001 - )
• Chairman North West Science Alliance (2001 - )
• Learning & Skills Council Cheshire & Warrington Non-executive Director (2002 – 2008)
• Cheshire & Warrington Employment and Skills Board (2007 - )
• Mentor for National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2005 - 2006)
• Chair of Governors, Knutsford High School (1998 – 2001)
• School governor for 15 years, both primary & secondary
• Deputy Convenor East Cheshire Police Custody Visitors (2001 – 2005)
• Recorder British Association Chemistry Section (1999 – 2005)
• Trustee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2001 - 2006 )
• Vice-President Warrington Youth Orchestra (1998 – )
• Treasurer Middlewich Orchestra (2000 - )
• Honorary Fellow Manchester University awarded 2002
• Honorary Fellow Chester University awarded 2003
• Honorary Fellow of the British Association awarded 2006
• British Chemical Distributors & Traders - Chairman’s Special Award 2006
• Royal Society of Chemistry Education Award 2005
• King’s College London Bursary 2005
• Royal Society of Chemistry Education Bursary 2004

I play viola in orchestras and string quartets, keep up my German at conversation classes and edit a talking newspaper for the blind.