About
The person behind SO.RC
I am Success Onuoha - research communications consultant, published researcher, and founder of SO.RC.
I help universities, funded projects, charities, and evidence-led organisations close the gap between what research finds and who gets to benefit from it.
Most research stays inside journals, reports, and academic channels that many people never access.
I set up SO.RC to change that through clear, responsible translation and public-facing communications.
Background and experience
I have spent the last several years working at the intersection of research and communications, supporting UK-funded international research programmes, leading organisational communications for a feminist anti-racist charity, publishing peer-reviewed research, and building content strategies that reach real audiences across digital platforms.
Highlights include UK-funded programmes, international research partnerships, and charity communications leadership.
My work has spanned climate and respiratory health research, oral cancer prevention, cross-continental research partnerships, and public health communications. I have worked with principal investigators, project managers, research coordinators, and charity leadership teams, and I understand what each of them actually needs from a communications partner.
Before founding SO.RC, I held research communications roles at Teesside University, where I supported projects including C2REST, a Medical Research Foundation-funded climate-health programme, and led digital communications for international research partnerships across the UK, USA, Nigeria, and Uganda. I also served as Communications and Digital Engagement Lead at The Angelou Centre in Newcastle, where I built and delivered a full digital communications function from the ground up.
I founded SO.RC because the need for specialist research communications support is consistent and significant, and because I wanted to bring that support to more organisations than any single in-house role would allow.
Published research and peer review
I am a published researcher with a solo-authored paper and two co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals. This is not background detail; it is central to how I work. Because I have navigated the research process from design through to publication, I understand what research teams are working with, what is at stake in how findings are communicated, and what it takes to translate evidence responsibly without losing its integrity.
Publications
Onuoha, S.C. (2025). The health research-public awareness gap: why scientific progress is failing to reach communities. Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy, 5, e2025053. Solo-authored.
Kanmodi, K.K. et al. (2025). BMC Oral Health, 25, 224. Co-authored.
Kanmodi, K.K. et al. (2025). F1000Research, 14, 67. Co-authored.
Kanmodi, K.K. et al. (2026) Sci Rep. Co-authored.
Peer review
Active peer reviewer for the Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy since September 2024, reviewing manuscripts across public health, health systems, and global health policy.
Education
MA Digital Media and Communications - Distinction · Teesside University
BSc Biochemistry · Federal University of Technology Owerri
What drives the work
Research should reach people.
Too much valuable evidence never gets beyond the journal it was published in. Every engagement I take on is built around closing that gap.
Clarity is a form of respect.
When you translate research into language people can actually use, you are telling your audience that their understanding matters. That is not a communications technique. It is a values-based position.
Good work deserves to be seen.
The organisations I work with are doing genuinely important things. My job is to make sure the right people know about it.