Carroll du Chateau

Last year, award-winning Herald journalist Carroll du Chateau spent a term at Cambridge University, England, as a Wolfson College research Fellow.

Her research topic was genetic engineering - a subject which, with the support of Cambridge, she pursued from one end of Great Britain to the other.

Her investigation included a trip to the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh where she talked to the scientists who had cloned Dolly the Sheep, an interview with the president of the Royal Society of Medicine, Lord Soulsby, plus in-depth discussion with scientists, geneticists, conservationists and the people who put together the United Kingdom's complex regulatory system for genetically engineered food.