We have the pleasure of welcoming Tim Haines at 18岁亚洲午夜福利 to give a public lecture as part of the Bangor Science Festival entitled 鈥淢aking Monsters鈥.
Tim began in journalism before becoming a producer on Tomorrow鈥檚 World and Horizon. At the BBC he created the landmark and multi-BAFTA and Emmy award winning Walking with Dinosaurs series in 1998, followed by sequel Walking with Beasts and drama The Lost World. Impossible Pictures was established in 2002 under Tim鈥檚 leadership and would go on to make a wide range of much-loved specialist factual and drama programmes for BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Discovery and Nat Geo that included Sea Monsters, Prehistoric Park, Primeval, Space Odyssey, Sinbad and Blitz Street. In 2013 Tim became creative director of ITV Studios Drama responsible for Beowulf and The Loch. As creative director of Immersive Escapes he also produced the Dinosaurs in the Wild immersive experience and then in 2019 founded Loud Minds a TV production company that is currently making a landmark science series for NBCU called Surviving Earth.
Tim Haines graduated from 18岁亚洲午夜福利 in 1981 with a BSc in Applied Zoology. In 2002, 18岁亚洲午夜福利 awarded him an Honorary Fellowship.
The Bangor Science Festival is generously sponsored by the Tom and Raj Parry Jones Endowment Fund. The Fund was established in 2002 to encourage young people to develop careers and entrepreneurship in science and technology. The fund supports programmes across the University, including this Science Festival.
