Athena Dinar

Press and Information Officer

Athena Dinar

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Athena Dinar

Biography

Athena is a Senior Science Communications Manager. She is responsible for campaign planning, media relations, media visits, exhibition projects and public engagement in the Communications Team at British Antarctic Survey.

Athena takes a lead role in managing all aspects of daily media relations activity. This includes dealing with media enquiries, writing press releases, setting up interviews, arranging filming and offering media training to staff. She has escorted five media crews to Antarctica over her 18 years at BAS including BBC TV News, Reuters and BBC Horizon.

Athena is the UK lead on the communications planning and delivery for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a five-year programme of scientific investigation on Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

The Communications Team works collectively on high profile projects. Our work has been recognised by our industry peers. Including:

Awards and nominations for Public Relations

Maritime Foundation Award – best website (www.bas.ac.uk)

CIPR Cream Award – Silver for Best In-house PR Department
PRWeek Award Finalist for Best Public Sector Dept of the Year
CorpComms Winner for Best Public Sector Award for ‘Discover Antarctica’ public engagement campaign & event (Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Edinburgh 2006)
CorpComms Winner for Best use of Broadcast(for ITV News Antarctic visit – the Big Melt)
CIPR Excellence Awards Finalist in Broadcast Category (for ITV News Antarctic visit – the Big Melt)

Awards and nominations for Education

BAFTA Winner for Offline Educational Resource Antarctic Waves

Scottish Association of Geography Teachers award for DiscoveringAntarctica online educational resource
The Geographical Association award for DiscoveringAntarctica online educational resource
Childrens BAFTA nomination for Secondary Education
International Webby Award nomination for Education