Subscriptions and back issues

If you have a query about a BBC Science Focus Magazine subscription or back issue (concerning a new order, an existing order or a change of address or other details), please contact our customer services team:

Visit: www.ourmediashop.com/contact-us
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Science Focus iPad app

You’ll find information and help on the Focus app in iTunes. For technical queries and billing issues, contact us here: www.ourmediashop.com/contact-us

Editorial enquiries

If you have a comment or query regarding an article that has previously been published in BBC Science Focus, contact:

Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0117 300 8755

For editorial complaints, please use [email protected]

Letters for publication

Email your comments to [email protected]
Alternatively, post them to:

BBC Science Focus ‘Reply’,
Eagle House,
Colston Avenue,
Bristol,
BS1 4ST

We reserve the right to edit correspondence for publication.

Advertising

If you are interested in advertising in BBC Science Focus Magazine, in our iPad app or on Science Focus, contact:

Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0117 300 8287

Work experience applications

*** Please note: we are not currently booking placements for 2024. We'll update this page again once we start to take on applications. ***

Article submissions

*** Please note - BBC Science Focus Magazine’s features meetings are held once a month and we are unable to respond to writers before this meeting. We only accept pitches for features (articles between 2 and 8 pages long, or over 1,000 words for online) and not news stories or other sections of the magazine. ***

If you’re a science writer and you have a feature idea for BBC Focus Magazine or ScienceFocus.com, we’d like to hear from you. Please contact [email protected] (magazine commissioning editor) or thomas.ling[at]ourmedia.co.uk (digital editor). To save time, we strongly recommend that you read at least one recent issue of BBC Science Focus.

Do not send completed articles - all our published features are written to a specific brief. If we like your idea, we will get in touch to commission you. Due to pressures of time, we can only consider pitches from established journalists and science writers who can demonstrate prior experience of writing for publication.

Photography

Subject areas include nature (unusual animals or unusual behaviour), technology (new technology, new techniques, impressive equipment), natural world (stunning natural occurrences, unusual landscapes etc), space imagery (new missions, anniversary images, new space telescope images).

We publish photos that are:

• Relevant to the field of science and technology.
• Visually arresting to the reader; grabbing their attention, while at the same time leading them to question what the subject matter is, especially if it’s not immediately clear.
• Have some kind of news hook OR link into an anniversary. Otherwise, to be non-time sensitive but relatively recent. To fit this criteria, the news/anniversary angle needs to be current/upcoming, and not out of date (e.g. a news image that was issued 3 months before the on sale date of the issue it might appear.)

For more details click here.

Please send photography submissions to [email protected]

Illustrations

Please send all illustration submissions to our art editor, Joe Eden, ensuring that the file sizes do not exceed 5MB: [email protected]

PR submissions - technology

BBC Science Focus features new, innovative technology. From 3D printers to virtual reality to mind-controlled headsets, we want to hear about the gadgets that are going to change the way we live. Even if your product is at the prototype stage – if it’s exciting enough, we want to see it. We also run monthly, topical group tests of consumer tech. The products we'll include will be new to market or be related to the time of year.

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

PR submissions - events, TV, radio, DVD/Blu-ray

If you’ve got an event, TV/radio show or DVD that talks to people interested in science and technology, we want to know about it! The sooner you can provide us with information the better, but for last-minute events and releases, we’re happy to tweet our readers if it’s relevant. If any of the above applies, please email: Thomas.Ling[at]ourmedia.co.uk

PR submissions - books

We regularly feature interviews with authors and are always interested in hearing about new popular science books. If you have a book that you think might be suitable for us, please contact: Thomas.Ling[at]ourmedia.co.uk

PR submissions - competitions

BBC Science Focus runs competitions large and small. We’re interested in hearing from you on any product relating to science and technology: gadgets, books and DVD/Blu-ray are our most common prizes. We run several competitions per issue with small-value prizes (eg DVDs). For large value items we are able to consider full-page competitions, given sufficient advance notice (typically 3-4 months). Contact: [email protected]

Complaints

We abide by IPSO’s rules and regulations. To give feedback about our magazines, please visit ourmedia.co.uk, email [email protected], or write to Legal, Our Media Ltd, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST