Name
Aisling Irwin
Bio
Aisling Irwin (aislingirwin.com) is a journalist and writer who specialises in the environment, the developing world and science. A former correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, she has has won awards from the Association of British Science Writers and the Medical Journalists Association. She has co-authored Bradt’s Cape Verde guide and contributed to the publisher’s guidebook to solar eclipses, among other books, which include one retracing David Livingstone’s final journey: In Quest of Livingstone: a Journey to the Four Fountains. Her work regularly appears in New Scientist, Nature, SciDev.Net and Horizon, and she has also written for BBC Wildlife, Geographical, Times Higher and Saga magazine.