Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid

I am a writer, academic, and sometimes broadcaster. Although I've published numerous academic articles and a monograph, I work broadly in the field of non-fiction.

My most recent book is 'Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us' (Hachette 2018) about how the way we live now is changing our bodies. It was translated into 8 languages, and led to making programmes with ITV and across the BBC, even editing live radio on 5Live, interviews across the US radio on NPR - recording an audiobook, a Ted talk, a Long Read for The Guardian, and many more. I also made, based on this book, 2 series for the BBC World Service (called ‘Changing World, Changing Bodies’), these were broadcast in about 200 countries. It was a Science Book of the Year in the ‘Financial Times’ and in ‘The Mail’.

Before that, I published ‘Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human (Penguin Random House, 2016). It is a nature-writing memoir about running and the environment. It was translated into a couple of languages. Reviewers called it ‘impassioned and energetic’, and ‘a blazing achievement’.

I am currently working on a political memoir about education and the war on the humanities.