Meet the Judges 2025

With thanks to those who are giving their time freely to judge the 2025 ABSW Awards:

Sara Abdulla, Consultant Editor, formerly Opinion Editor, Washington Post and Chief Opinion Editor, Nature 

Philip Ball, Freelance

Georgia Banjo, Britain Correspondent, The Economist

Tiffany Cassidy, Freelance

JV Chamary, ABSW Treasurer, science communicator and journalist

Kit Chapman, Lecturer, Queen Margaret University

Deborah Cohen, ABSW Secretary, former BBC Radio Science Editor

Ed Day, Science Media Centre

Victoria English, Editor, MedNous, a publication of Evernow Publishing Ltd

Leo Enright, Irish radio broadcaster and news reporter

Grey Enticknap, Editorial Assistant, Springer Nature

Katy Evans, Managing Editor, IFLScience

Martin Ince, Freelance science & education writer, media adviser & media trainer (Chair of Awards Judging Panel)

Niall Jeffrey, Senior Research Fellow, University College London

Amit Katwala Writer and editor, WIRED

Hannah Kuchler, Global Pharma Editor

Suze Kundu, Science communicator and journalist

Alexander McNamara, Editor-in-Chief

Barbara Melville, Freelance science writer & lecturer

Dai Richards, Former freelance producer/director of documentary films and series

Katharine Sanderson, ABSW Board member, Freelance, Editor of Nature Briefing: Anthropocene

John Sudworth, BBC Senior North American Correspondent 

Paul Tullis, Freelance

Jon Turney Freelance science writer

Jeremy Webb, Freelance science writer, editor & speaker. Former editor & editor-in-chief of New Scientist