Eleanor Bradford is an award-winning communications specialist and our media training expert. After a long career as a BBC correspondent, she led the communications team at the University of Aberdeen and then Gordonstoun, the school attended by King Charles. As a consultant specialising in corporate and crisis comms, she works with a wide variety of organisations across the food and drink, environmental, transport, education and health sectors. Eleanor is a former columnist and sits on the boards of three organisations as a chair and non-exec director/trustee. As an adoptive parent, she campaigns for more support for adopters in crisis and in her spare time enjoys pottering about in her polytunnel and looking after her free range chickens and pet KuneKune pig, Spotty.