Role Journalist | Name Angela Saini Website angelasaini.co.uk Books Geek Nation | |
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Notable work Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World; A Degree of Deception; A Formula for Justice; | ||
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Angela Saini (born London, England) is an English science journalist, broadcaster and author. Her first book Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World was published on 3 March 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK, and by Hachette in the Indian sub-continent in April 2011. Her second book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting The Story, will be published by Harper Collins in 2017.
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- Angela saini on geek nation
- Joanne s irp india trip geek nation by angela saini
- Quitting the BBC
- Investigation into bogus universities
- Books
- Credentials and awards
- References
Her work has appeared in Science, Wired, The Guardian and New Scientist and she is a frequent presenter on BBC radio, for shows including The Food Chain, Material World, More or Less.
Saini is a former reporter for BBC London News, the BBC's regional television news programme covering Greater London. In 2008, she carried out an investigation into bogus universities which was broadcast on the BBC TV's flagship Ten O'Clock News, BBC News 24 and BBC World. The report won a Prix Circom Award for regional television journalism in Europe.
She has a masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford, a second masters in Science and Security from King's College London, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2012 and 2013.
Saini is also a frequent contributor to The New Humanist, a quarterly journal of the Rationalist Association.
Joanne s irp india trip geek nation by angela saini
Quitting the BBC
Saini cites the changing landscape of journalism as a reason for her departure in 2008 from the BBC, an organisation she has deep respect for and continues to work for in a freelance capacity. "Big broadcasters already understand that it's not only lone journalists, but also ordinary citizens who are easily creating mass media. I can't think of anything better than being at the front of that revolution, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others felt the same."
Investigation into bogus universities
Saini's award-winning BBC London television report A Degree of Deception was based on an investigation in 2007–2008 centred mainly on the Irish International University, "one of the most notorious fake universities operating in the UK." This University is nearly a decade old, and still creating an illusion of credibility, mostly to foreign students who arrive on "campus" only to find the college was just a tiny office block in east London with no library and a handful of students, or in some cases, nothing more than a mailbox.
Other questionable institutions include: University of New Castle, Preston University and University of Leads, whose sole aim is to mislead students and make money.
Books
Saini's first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, was a bestseller in India and named a book of the year by The Independent newspaper in the UK.
Her second book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting The Story, was commissioned by Fourth Estate (Harper Collins) in 2015, and was published on 1st June 2017. It explores how science has failed to understand women and perpetrated bias.