Our Biggest Experiment – SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING

Alice Bell is a researcher, campaigner and writer based in London, specialising in the politics of science, technology, environment and health. She was a co-director at the climate change charity Possible for several years, working on a range of projects from community tree-planting events to solar-powered railways. She has a PhD in science communication from Imperial College, where she also held a lectureship in science communication and launched an interdisciplinary course on climate change. Alice has also worked at the University of Sussex's Science Policy Research Unit, City Journalism School, the Science Museum and as a freelance writer and editor. She has written for a host of publications including The Times, The Observer and New Humanist, researched the 1970s radical science movement for Mosaic magazine, co-founded the Guardian's science policy blog, and edited the 'magazine for the future', How We Get to Next.