Sandy Starr is Communications Officer at the Progress Educational Trust – a registered charity that works in the fields of genetics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research – and devised and is currently overseeing its project ‘Spectrum of Opinion: Genes, Autism and Psychological Spectrum Disorders’. He is also Webmaster of its publication BioNews.

After studying English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and working at the digital agency cScape, he joined the founding editorial team of the current affairs publication spiked. From 2000 to 2006, he worked for spiked as a writer, press officer and events organiser, and represented it on TV and radio programmes including Sunday Live with Adam Boulton on Sky News, the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, and You and Yours on BBC Radio 4.

He has also consulted and spoken on technology and regulation for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Commission research project RightsWatch; spent several years writing weekly film reviews for The Sun newspaper’s TV Mag; and has contributed to periodicals including the Architects’ Journal, Arts Education Policy Review, Economic Affairs, Hindu, Municipal Journal, New Humanist, openDemocracy, Tech Central Station, Times Literary Supplement and The Works (magazine of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors).

He has contributed chapters on regulation and law to the books Crime and Deviance in Cyberspace, ed David S Wall, Ashgate 2009; Hate Crimes, ed Paul Connors, Greenhaven Press 2006; The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook, ed Arnaud Amouroux and Christian Möller, OSCE 2004; Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions, ed Christiane Hardy and Christian Möller, OSCE 2003; From Quill to Cursor: Freedom of the Media in the Digital Era, ed Karin Spaink, OSCE 2003; and The Internet: Brave New World?, ed Dolan Cummings, Hodder and Stoughton 2002