Kat Arney’s enthusiasm for storytelling has been with her since childhood, when she devoured books and performed plays and music with her sister. She then fell in love with science, going on to obtain a degree in natural sciences and a PhD in developmental biology. But lab life wasn’t for her. She still felt the call to tell stories and so she combined her passions and became a professional science communicator. In this episode of Research Comms she shares her experiences and talks frankly about some of the big issues facing the science communication sector.