安琪拉·赛尼

安琪拉·赛尼（英语：Angela Saini，1980年—）是英国科学记者、电台媒体播报员和作家，她的第三本著作《Superior: The Return of Race Science 》已于 2019 年出版。 她的作品刊载于《科学》、《连线》、《卫报》 、《新人文主义者》和《新科学家》等刊物。她也是BBC 电台的主持人。

教育

她拥有两个硕士学位 - 牛津大学的工程学硕士学位和伦敦国王学院战争研究系的科学与安全硕士学位。 她曾是牛津大学基布尔学院的学生。

事业

赛尼曾在 BBC 担任记者，并于 2008 年离职，成为一名自由作家。 2008 年，赛尼 因调查假大学而赢得了CIRCOM 大奖，调查重点是群岛国际大学 (Isles International University) 。 她于 2009 年被评为欧洲年度青年科学作家。

赛尼的第一本著作《不可忽视的印度：崛起中的超级科技强权》于 2011 年出版。

2012年，她获得英国科学作家协会的最佳新闻奖 (Award for best news item, 2012)。 2012 年至 2013 年间，她是麻省理工学院的奈特科学新闻研究员 (Knight Science Journalism Fellow)。 2015年，她获得了美国科学促进会金奖。

Angela Saini (born 1980) is a British science journalist, broadcaster and the author of books, of which the fourth, The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, was published in 2023 and was a finalist for that year's George Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Saini has worked as a reporter and presenter for the BBC and has written for a number of publications, including The Guardian, New Scientist, and Wired UK. She has also produced and presented several radio and television documentaries, including a BBC Radio 4 documentary on biofuels and a BBC World Service documentary on the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. Saini's writing and reporting focus on how science interacts with society, especially on how it affects marginalized groups, and she has been acclaimed for her work by a diverse range of organizations and institutions.

Early life and education

She holds two master's degrees: one in engineering from the University of Oxford, and one in science and security from the Department of war studies at King's College London. She was a student at Keble College, Oxford.

Career

Saini began writing while at university, authoring two articles for The LIP Magazine. She worked as a reporter at the BBC, and left in 2008 to become a freelance writer. In 2008 Saini won a Prix CIRCOM for her investigation of fake universities, focusing on Isles International University. She was named European Young Science Writer of the Year in 2009.

In 2012, she won the Association of British Science Writers Award for best news item published in 2011. 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. In August 2017, an internal memo written by a Google employee about the company's diversity policies, (Google's Ideological Echo Chamber), received public attention. Saini criticised the memo, calling it "[not] just intellectual laziness; [but] prejudice masquerading as fact".

Television appearances

Saini appeared on the 2018/19 Christmas University Challenge series representing King's College London, alongside Anita Anand (captain), Zoe Laughlin, and Anne Dudley.

Saini presented the BBC Four documentary Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal, with disability rights activist and actor Adam Pearson.

Books

Saini's first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, was published in 2011. Her second book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, was published in 2017, a non-fiction book that explores the history of science's understanding of sex differences and the impact of this understanding on women's lives. The book delves into how scientists, researchers and society at large, have treated women as intellectually, emotionally and physically inferior to men for centuries. Through her research, Saini presents evidence to dispute these long-held beliefs, and how contemporary research is now challenging the traditional narrative about the differences between men and women.