Meet the Judges 2026

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With thanks to those who are giving their time freely to judge the 2026 ABSW Awards:

Sara Abdulla, Consultant Editor, formerly Opinion Editor, Washington Post and Chief Opinion Editor, Nature 

Paul Adepoju, Freelance science journalist

Georgia Banjo, Britain Correspondent, The Economist

JV Chamary, ABSW Treasurer, science communicator and journalist

Deborah Cohen, ABSW Secretary, former BBC Radio Science Editor

Rebecca Coombes, Head of Journalism, BMJ

Hannah Devlin, Science correspondent, The Guardian

Victoria English, Editor, MedNous, a publication of Evernow Publishing Ltd

Leo Enright, Irish radio broadcaster and news reporter

Katy Evans, Managing Editor, IFLScience

Rosa Furneaux, Freelance investigative journalist

Olive Heffernan, Freelance science journalist

Laura Howes, Executive Editor, Chemistry & Engineering News

Martin Ince, Freelance science & education writer, media adviser & media trainer (Chair of Awards Judging Panel)

Aisling Irwin, Freelance science journalist, ABSW board member

Thomas Jones, Senior Editor, The London Review of Books

Chris Kilburn, Professor of Volcanology and Geophysical Hazards, UCL

Suze Kundu, Science communicator and journalist

Ehsan Masood, Editorials Editor, and Bureau Chief for Africa and the Middle East, Nature

Alexander McNamara, Editor-in-Chief

Tereza Pultarova, Freelance science journalist

Dai Richards, Former freelance producer/director of documentary films and series

Katharine Sanderson, ABSW Board member, Freelance, Editor of Nature Briefing: Anthropocene

Jon Turney Freelance science writer

Jeremy Webb, Freelance science writer, editor & speaker. Former editor & editor-in-chief of New Scientist