Angela Saini, Science journalist and Lilian Anekwe, Social media editor for New Scientist, discussing "How real is race?", on the Engineering Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
With race and identity high on the political agenda, award-winning writer Angela Saini explores the dangerous ways in which scientific racism is re-entering the mainstream, and also the troubling failure of researchers to abandon old-fashioned racial categories when trying to understand human variation. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and broadcaster. She regularly presents science programmes for the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, The Times, and Wired. Her last book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, was published in 2017 to widespread critical acclaim, and named the Physics World Book of the Year. Angela has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford and was a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angela Saini (born 1980) is a British science journalist, broadcaster and the author of three books - Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Her third book, Superior: The Return of Race Science was published in 2019. Her work has appeared in Science, Wired, The Guardian, The New Humanist and New Scientist. She is also a presenter on BBC radio. Saini worked as a reporter at the BBC, but left in 2008 to become a freelance writer. In 2008 Saini won a Prix CIRCOM for her investigation of fake universities, focusing on Irish International University. She was named European Young Science Writer of the Year in 2009. Saini's first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, published in 2011, was named a book of the year by The Independent. In 2012 she won the Association of British Science Writers Award for best news item, 2012. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2012 and 2013. In 2015 she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Gold award.
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