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Q&A with Angela Saini

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Wed, Aug 26 2020, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Authors: Angela Saini

Room: MacKinnon Hall

Type: Keynote (60mins)

Description

Angela Saini, will join the summit for a Q&A session chaired by ALT’s chief executive Maren Deepwell. This special Q&A session will give participants the opportunity to explore questions such as what we mean when we say that race is a social construct, why racialised thinking persists in science and academia, and reflection on the BAME health disparities in the current crisis.

Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She presents radio and television programmes for the BBC, and her writing has appeared across the world, including in New Scientist, Prospect, The Sunday Times, Wired, and National Geographic. Angela’s latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was published by 4th Estate in May 2019 to enormous critical acclaim, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Foyles Book of the Year. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, was published in 2017, winning the Physics World Book of the Year. Find out more about Angela Saini.

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