Welcome to our new members in 2025

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ABSW welcomed 20 new members since September 2025 to the end of the year. Whether they are seeking new career opportunities or are well-established, award-winning journalists, ABSW has room for everyone.

Among the new members are journalists and editors shaping science coverage across major platforms, including the BBC, Live Science, and SciDev.Net, as well as academics, students and aspiring communicators at every stage of their careers.

From those exploring new professional paths to those experimenting with alternative communication channels — such as illustration or TikTok — this cohort reflects the diversity, curiosity and ambition that continue to strengthen ABSW.

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Say hello to our latest members, and make them feel part of the network!

• Matthew Blackett is an Associate Professor of Natural Hazards and a regular commentator for the BBC, Sky News, and The Conversation, known for making complex science accessible to wide audiences.
• Eve Boswell created a short illustrated book on the impacts of microplastics on loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean during the final year of her undergraduate studies, and is working on a book about the impacts of PFAS on the environment and humans.
• Malu Cursino is a breaking news reporter at the BBC, where she covers major domestic and international stories, working effectively in a fast-paced newsroom, while searching for science and climate angles wherever possible. 
• Clare Garrard is a freelance science writer who combines her technical and communication strengths to make science accessible to the general public.
• Ayden Goh Teng Wee is an aspiring scientist, currently studying Biochemistry at UCL.
• Tiffany Harrison is a freelance writer with a strong interest in immunology and neuroscience.
• James Honeyborne is a BAFTA and EMMY award-winning wildlife filmmaker, best known for his hit underwater TV series, the BBC’s ‘Blue Planet II’ with Sir David Attenborough and Netflix’s ‘Our Oceans’.
• Charlotte Leeds is a Msci Biological Sciences student interested in environmental warfare and, more broadly, in environmental activism and journalism.
• Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science.
• Ellie Pearson is a PhD student of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Exeter, researching type 1 diabetes (funded by the MRC/UKRI).
• Roger Pebody is a freelance writer, often focusing on HIV, while also providing medical writing and editing services to scientists and researchers who use English as a second language.
• Rachel Salvidge is an award-winning environmental journalist and co-founder of investigative journalism non-profit Watershed.
• Sharon Scurlock recently graduated and is looking at career options.
• Sofia Sedelnikova completed an internship at the Science Media Center in Germany in 2024, which sparked her interest in becoming a science journalist.
• Shazeena Shahid has two degrees but is very interested in science writing.
• Laura Southwood wants to develop her science communication and publishing skills further, to produce evidence-based articles and contribute to informed public discourse on nutrition, health, and lifestyle.
• Wannes Vanoyenbrugge is a Belgian student pursuing a master's in Science Communication at Imperial College London. During university, Wannes started TikTok channels about science.
• Louise Walker has been working in science-focused communications and public engagement since completing her PhD in Cell Organisation and Dynamics in 2014.
• Joseph Davis Weddi is a journalist and digital producer at SciDev.Net (CABI) in Oxfordshire, UK, where he leads digital production and content strategy for the platform.
• Siti Nur Zulaikha Binti Zulkefli is passionate about science communication and hopes to bridge modern biology with insights from Muslim civilisation through journalism and storytelling.

You can find some of our members' profiles in our public directory.

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