Background
Cockburn grew up in Cuckfield in Sussex.
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Hermiona Cockburn
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Education
She has a Doctor of Philosophy in geomorphology from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked at various academic institutes including a two-year post-doctorate at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Career
She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Antarctica, Australia, and Namibia. In 1999, Cockburn helped establish the education service at Our Dynamic Earth, the prominent science centre and visitor attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland. Then, in 2005, Cockburn co-presented What the Ancients Did for Us with Adam Hart-Davis for British Broadcasting Corporation Two, exploring the scientific legacy of ancient civilisations, before joining the team of Rough Science (also on British Broadcasting Corporation Two), replacing Kathy Sykes for the sixth series.
Expert contributions for the British Broadcasting Corporation Television series Coast have included explanations of Scottish geomorphology, geoarchaeology and engineering geology.
In 2008, she presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Television/Open University documentary series Fossil Detectives for which she also wrote the companion book From 2005 to 2010, she was the regular presenter of Resource Review on the Teachers" television channel.
She is an associate lecturer with the Open University, teaching environmental science in Scotland.
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