The Royal Society
Jim Haake is an experienced social media and digital marketing professional currently serving as the Social Media Officer at The Royal Society since February 2020. Previously, Jim held various roles at London Business School, including Web and Social Media Executive and Communications and Data Coordinator, from June 2016 to February 2020. Additionally, Jim gained experience as a Digital Marketing Assistant at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance and worked as an Editorialist/Shop Manager at Ship & Duck. Academic achievements include a Master of Arts in Multimedia Journalism from The Manchester Metropolitan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and Ancient History from The University of Manchester.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.