Kate Bellingham

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Kate Bellingham is a British engineer and former television presenter most widely known for her role presenting popular BBC science show Tomorrow's World in the early 1990s.

She went to the independent Mount School on Dalton Terrace (A59) in York. She studied physics at the University of Oxford.

Bellingham was a BBC radio engineer working in the studios of the BBC world service in December 1989 when she was selected to co-host a live travelling science show for BBC Schools sponsored by the Institution of Electrical Engineers called Techno. Spotted as a talented communicator of science and a potential role model for young women in a traditionally male-dominated industry, she was offered the chance to join the team of presenters working on the BBC's flagship popular science show in 1989.

After around five years of regular television work, hosting numerous live events and presenting countless corporate video programmes, Bellingham decided to focus first on her young family and then to follow her core professional interest by returning to university to secure an MSc in electronics.

Currently, she is working as a maths teacher with a view to working with the media part-time in the future. She also promotes the virtues of engineering to schoolchildren.

In 1997, she received an honorary doctorate in Technology from Staffordshire University. In 2003, she received an MSc in Electronics from the University of Hertfordshire. She is President of Young Engineers, an organisation of after-school engineering clubs.

She married BBC maintenance engineer, Martin Young, in 1995. They met after she was working on a TV set as a trainee BBC engineer when it exploded and he fetched her a cup of tea. They have a son (born January 1998) and daughter (born May 2000). They live in Hertfordshire.