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Literary Magazine

I am co-founder and non-fiction editor of a literary magazine focused on science and scientists, Tamarind. We have eight issues out so far, with another on its way.
 
I also manage its instagram page.

Non-Fiction

I regularly work with DK (Dorling Kindersley Ltd) as an author, consultant, and fact checker on its science titles for children and adults.

  • What's It Made Of? (2025): A materials science book for young readers. I developed and wrote 20 double-page spreads, each of which identifies and explains the many materials found in everyday objects.
  • The Science Book (2025): This project involved updating the 10-year-old Science Book ready for its second edition, including fact checking, diversifying the featured scientists, and adding new entries for recent scientific developments.
  • The Moon (2025): This is an illustrated account of the Moon in all its guises: muse, mystery, and mission. I wrote the final chapter of this book, which covers all crewed missions to the Moon, from Apollo to Artemis and Chang'e.
  • How Technology Works (2024): Wrote the consumer technology and power/industrial technology chapters of this visual guide to technology for children.
  • Simply Emerging Technology (2024): A beginner's guide to all of emerging technology. I served as consultant and author for this book, and was involved in everything from developing the contents to signing off on the artwork.
  • Simply Artificial Intelligence (2023): A beginner's guide to AI, from the history of the concept to ethical and philosophical questions prompted by the mainstreaming of AI. I worked on this book as consultant, planning all the contents of the book and working closely with the in-house team on visuals, and also as an author for the more technical sections.
  • Timelines of Science (2022): I worked as an author on this visual history of scientific discovery, with responsibility for the physics sections.
  • How Everything Works (2022): A visual STEM encyclopedia for kids. I consulted on the space section of this book.
  • SuperScience (2021): A book exploring the real-world applications of concepts taught in science lessons. I helped develop the physics content and provided text for these sections.
  • Super Simple Physics (2021): A physics book for secondary school students. Super Simple Physics follows the core curriculum, explaining and illustrating every concept and guiding the reader through problem solving with worked examples. I wrote approximately half the text for this book. 
  • Simply Quantum Physics (2021): A beginner's guide to the world of quantum physics, featuring introductions to more than 100 key concepts. I contributed approximately half the text and helped guide designers as they illustrated these abstract concepts.
  • The Visual Encyclopedia (2020): I planned and wrote the physics, technology, and engineering sections of this 'landmark piece of referencing publishing'.
  • The Physics Book (2020): I contributed the nuclear and particle physics chapter to this installation of DK's Big Ideas series. This book for general adults readers explains important concepts in physics and tells the stories of their discoveries.
  • Explanatorium of Science (2019): I worked on the physics and space sections of this children's book; this involved planning the contents, coming up with ideas for the photographs at the core of each spread, writing the spreads, and sometimes briefing the artists.
  • How Technology Works (2019): I wrote the communications technology chapter and some other material for How Technology Works, Dorling Kindersley's guide to the hidden workings of everyday and cutting-edge technology.
  • How Science Works (2018): I recently worked as editorial consultant for Dorling Kindersley on their comprehensive science book: How Science Works. I fact-checked and edited the physical sciences section of the book.

Public Engagement

I became involved with public engagement with science as an undergraduate, when I discovered that talking about physics can be much more fun than actually doing it.
 
Among other activities, I was a dedicated science centre volunteer and a science demonstrator for the University of Bristol; volunteered more than 100 hours with Bristol's science centre, We The Curious; helped run a science engagement programme connecting school students with scientists; and served as Secretary of the local British Science Association branch.

Fiction

I am, predictably, working on A Novel. It has nothing to do with science or technology.