Find the story inside complex science and technology.
SES Communications helps founders, technical teams and growing companies work out what matters, and turn it into clear, credible communications that build understanding, trust and momentum.
Messaging • Customer stories • Thought leadership • Launch communications
MORE SIGNAL. LESS CORPORATE NOISE.
The challenge usually isn’t finding more words.
It's finding the right story.
Your technical team knows the product inside out. Your founders can talk about the science for hours. You’ve got data, customers, milestones and expertise. But what should you actually be saying?
I work directly with founders, scientists, engineers, customers and leadership teams to ask the questions that uncover what’s genuinely interesting, important and different.
Then I help turn those discoveries into communications with a job to do.
Not content for content’s sake.
Hi, I'm Stacey
I started my career as a journalist, where I was paid to walk into unfamiliar situations, ask a lot of questions and figure out what mattered.
I went on to write about science and research at Cornell University and build the communications programme for the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York from the ground up.
Today, through SES Communications, I work with science and technology organisations (and the agencies and partners supporting them) from my base in Glasgow.
What I bring
Strategic thinking
Before deciding what to write, post or build, I ask what the communication is actually supposed to achieve.
Technical confidence
I’m comfortable getting deep into unfamiliar science and technology — and asking experts to explain it until I genuinely understand.
Journalist’s curiosity
I ask questions, dig past the obvious answer and look for the angle everyone closest to the subject may have stopped noticing.
Hands-on delivery
Strategy is useful. So is actually getting things done. I can move from the big-picture story to the finished communications.
Direct senior support
Get one-on-one service without layers of account management. The person doing the thinking is the person doing the work.
Projects typically start from £500.
More than one way to work together
Supporting founders?
For incubators, accelerators and
innovation programmes
Give technically strong founders practical access to senior communications help.
Founder clinics, messaging office hours, homepage reviews and 1:1 support.
Need specialist backup?
For agencies, consultants & creative teams
When the brief gets technical, bring me in.
I can support discovery, messaging, expert interviews, specialist writing and client communications , white-label or client-facing.
Apparently, I ask good questions.
What it's like to work with me...
"Stacey is a consummate professional and excellent writer and communicator. She's organized, detail-oriented and overall a fantastic person to work with. I'd trust her with any project."
Anne Ju Manning,
Science Communicator, Harvard
"Stacey has great skill at translating often complicated and subtle scientific discoveries into pithy, informative stories that were enjoyable to read and accessible to the general public."
Rob Costello,
Writer
"Stacey is a curious, persistent and canny reporter with a knack for finding the heart of a story – even if it’s not obvious at first. Her writing is a pleasure to read – graceful, fluid and flawlessly structured."
Coral Davenport
Reporter, New York Times
A lot of my work happens behind the scenes
Biotechnology
Genomics
AI & Digital Tech
Health
My wider experience spans journalism, academic science, cancer research and more than a decade of communications work with technical organisations in the UK, Europe and US. I work directly with organisations and alongside specialist agencies, consultants and creative teams, sometimes client-facing, sometimes white-label.
Discretion is part of the service.