About
The person behind SO.RC
I’m Success Onuoha – a 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.
Too much research stays inside journals, reports, and academic channels that many people never access. I set up SO.RC to help research teams translate their work clearly, responsibly, and without losing the integrity of the evidence.
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, communications, and public engagement.
My experience spans UK-funded research programmes, international research partnerships, charity communications, and public-facing content strategy. I have worked across climate and respiratory health research, oral cancer prevention, cross-continental research collaborations, and public health communications.
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 led communications and digital engagement for a specialist charity, building and delivering a digital communications function from the ground up.
This experience has shaped how I work with principal investigators, project managers, research coordinators, charity leaders, and funders: with clarity, consistency, evidence sensitivity, and a focus on outputs that can actually be used.
Published research and peer review
I am a published researcher with a solo-authored paper and co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals.
This 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 when findings are communicated, and how 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 important work. My job is to help the right people understand, trust, and use it.