Sarah Wild

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Sarah Wild is a British-South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. [1] [2]

Wild is the author of Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars (2012) [3] and Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science (2015), [4] [5] which was published in Afrikaans as Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm. [6] In 2023 she published Human Origins: A Short History, [7] which was published in Chinese in 2024. [8]

Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013, [9] and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards. [10]

Wild has written for Nature, [11] Science, [12] Scientific American, [13] The Guardian, The Observer, [14] The Atlantic, [15] The Economist, Undark Magazine, Quartz, [16] AfricaCheck, Mail & Guardian, [17] and Business Day. [18]

References

  1. ↑ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards | Science Journalism Awards". sjawards.aaas.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2012). Searching African Skies. Jacana Media. ISBN   9781431404728.
  4. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2015). Innovation: Shaping South Africa Through Science. Pan Macmillan. ISBN   9781770104389.
  5. ↑ Hart, Tim G.B.; Development, Economic Performance and; Council, Human Sciences Research; Pretoria; Africa, South; Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Social; University, Stellenbosch; Stellenbosch; Africa, South (1 July 2016). "From the ocean to outer space – and almost everything in between". South African Journal of Science. 112 (7/8): 2. doi: 10.17159/sajs.2016/a0160 . ISSN   0038-2353.
  6. ↑ Wild, Sarah (1 September 2015). Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm (in Afrikaans). LAPA Uitgewers. ISBN   9780799376692.
  7. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2023). Human Origins: A Short History. Michael O'Mara. ISBN   978-1789295788.
  8. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2024). Human Origins: A Short History. 北京:中国友谊出版公司. ISBN   978-7-5057-5895-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  9. ↑ Staff Reporter. "M&G's Sarah Wild scoops Africa's top science journalism award". The M&G Online. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "African journalism shines at awards | The Media Online". themediaonline.co.za. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Wild, Sarah (11 June 2024). "How restorative justice could help to heal science communities torn apart by harassment misconduct" . Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01739-5.
  12. ↑ "Sarah Wild". www.science.org. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  13. ↑ "Stories by Sarah Wild". Scientific American. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  14. ↑ Wild, Sarah (18 November 2023). "Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left". The Observer. ISSN   0029-7712 . Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  15. ↑ Wild, Sarah. "Sarah Wild". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "South Africa's leadership in HIV research is galvanizing to tackle coronavirus and develop tests". Quartz. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  17. ↑ "Sarah Wild - 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017". 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  18. ↑ Wild, Sarah (9 March 2017). "SARAH WILD: Time to resurrect the woolly mammoth — the umpteenth time".


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