ABOUT ME
I am a UK-based science writer and editor, with a fascination for the workings (and limitations) of the human mind.
Over my 25-year career I have written regularly for New Scientist magazine, where I also spent several happy years in-house as a feature editor, working mostly on neuroscience, health and nature-based stories. My work has also appeared in the Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, BBC Future, BBC Earth, National Geographic and the Boston Globe.
I am the author of three books: Inner Sense, Move! and Override (published as My Plastic Brain in the US). I edited two of New Scientist’s Instant Expert Guides: How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe and Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain.
I like talking almost as much as I like writing, and over the years have produced and presented radio programmes and reports for the BBC, across Science, Natural History and Children’s Radio. I was also the regular co-presenter of the New Scientist podcast, along with Ivan Semeniuk, between 2006 and 2010.
My aim – and the reason I love what I do – is to learn new and exciting things and share them in the most entertaining way I can think of.
And, when I’m not doing that, I’m usually walking the dog.
