Bath-based specialist digital publisher SelectScience has commemorated its 25-year anniversary by highlighting its global legacy of innovation in science communication.
Founders Arif and Louise Butt launched the firm with a vision to introduce peer-to-peer and digital marketing services to the scientific industry.
Since then, it has gone from strength to strength, employing more than 30 people and connecting scientists and scientific manufacturers around the world with trusted information, enabling scientists to accelerate their work by informing them about the best laboratory products and technologies.
This, in turn, has supported advancements across multiple scientific disciplines, including infectious disease, cancer research, drug discovery, sustainability, food quality, clinical diagnostics and many others.
As a result, the SelectScience website has become an established provider of trusted product reviews and other valuable peer-to-peer content, including interviews with thought leaders that together help scientists to make important purchasing decisions about scientific equipment and services.
Over the quarter of a century, the SelectScience team has worked with countless top scientific manufacturers, world-leading scientists, institutes and societies.
Highlights include coverage of the science behind the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as interviews with Nobel laureates Dr Richard Henderson and Sir James Fraser Stoddart, which were filmed for SelectScience’s video platform, The Scientists’ Channel, a recent webinar featured NASA scientist Sarah Stahl-Rommel.
The Corston-based company’s role in spearheading global online communication in science has twice earned it the prestigious Queen’s Award. The most recent in 2021 when it received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the international trade category.
In the same year it secured a major private equity investment from London-based Vespa Capital, which enabled Arif and Louise Butt to retire.
Following the investment, financial details of which have not been disclosed, the business has undergone rapid growth. Over the past 12 months it has expanded its business functions, including editorial and content creation, marketing roles, digital production, sales and digital tech, with increased opportunities for new roles in the team.
SelectScience CEO Kerry Parker, pictured above, said: “We are delighted to celebrate 25 years as an employer of a wonderful team of skilled individuals in Bath, Bristol and surrounding areas.
“The silver anniversary together with our special feature and podcast series, pays homage to the past, explores how scientists and manufacturers are accelerating science, and looks ahead to how we can work together to keep driving science forward in progressive and creative ways.”
To celebrate the 25-year milestone, SelectScience published an extraordinary special feature dedicated to the visionary scientists and transformative technologies shaping our world.
It also hosted a dedicated celebration on Brunel's iconic SS Great Britain in Bristol for staff and wellwishers, pictured above.
