Vicki Hyde
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Vicki Hyde (née Vicki Spong) is a New Zealand science writer and editor, and chair-entity of the New Zealand Skeptics. She is co-owner with her husband Peter of a New Zealand-based software and web development company, Webcentre Ltd.
Hailing from Christchurch, she gained a B.Sc. in psychology and a B.A. in sociology from University of Canterbury , and represented her alma mater in the television series University Challenge in 1981, becoming part of the national champion team. Following her studies she lived in Japan before returning to New Zealand in 1989.
Hyde is best known as the Managing Editor of the popular science portal site ScitechDaily, which she began as a sister site to Arts & Letters Daily soon after the latter was launched in 1998 by her friend, Denis Dutton.
Hyde's company also worked with Dutton in 1998 to launch the Cybereditions Ebook and print-on-demand publishing operation, which Webcentre owns outright.
Hyde was also founder and Managing Editor of New Zealand Science Monthly magazine which was published for the full decade from 1990 to 2000. During that time she authored Godzone Skies, Astronomy for New Zealanders and helped launch and market Webcentre's flagship TurboNote software. Hyde won the New Zealand Association of Scientists science jornalism award in 1999.
She is the long-standing Chair-Entity of the New Zealand Skeptics (NZ Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Inc) and in 2006 will be publishing a book on paranormal phenomena and investigation in New Zealand.
In her leisure time, Hyde can be found in an alternate persona as the Baroness of Southron Gaard, a branch of the international Society for Creative Anachronism.
[edit] External links
- AWIS newsletter (PDF file)
- ScitechDaily
- webcentre
- Cybereditions
- New Zealand Science Monthly
- TurboNote
- Southron Gaard
[edit] Further reading
Godzone Skies, Astronomy for New Zealanders, ISBN 0-908812-19-1/0908812191
