Sarah Wild

Sarah Wild is a British-South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

Wild is the author of Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars (2012) and Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science (2015), which was published in Afrikaans as Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm. In 2023 she published Human Origins: A Short History, which was published in Chinese in 2024.

Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013, and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards.

Wild has written for Nature, Science, Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The Atlantic, The Economist, Undark Magazine, Quartz, AfricaCheck, Mail & Guardian, and Business Day.

References

  1. ↑ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards | Science Journalism Awards". sjawards.aaas.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2012). Searching African Skies. Jacana Media. ISBN 9781431404728.
  4. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2015). Innovation: Shaping South Africa Through Science. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781770104389.
  5. ↑ Hart, Tim G.B.; Development, Economic Performance and; Council, Human Sciences Research; Pretoria; Africa, South; Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Social; University, Stellenbosch; Stellenbosch; Africa, South (1 July 2016). "From the ocean to outer space – and almost everything in between". South African Journal of Science. 112 (7/8): 2. doi:10.17159/sajs.2016/a0160. ISSN 0038-2353.
  6. ↑ Wild, Sarah (1 September 2015). Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm (in Afrikaans). LAPA Uitgewers. ISBN 9780799376692.
  7. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2023). Human Origins: A Short History. Michael O'Mara. ISBN 978-1789295788.
  8. ↑ Wild, Sarah (2024). Human Origins: A Short History. 北京:中国友谊出版公司. ISBN 978-7-5057-5895-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  9. ↑ Staff Reporter. "M&G's Sarah Wild scoops Africa's top science journalism award". The M&G Online. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "African journalism shines at awards | The Media Online". themediaonline.co.za. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Wild, Sarah (11 June 2024). "How restorative justice could help to heal science communities torn apart by harassment misconduct". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01739-5.
  12. ↑ "Sarah Wild". www.science.org. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  13. ↑ "Stories by Sarah Wild". Scientific American. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  14. ↑ Wild, Sarah (18 November 2023). "Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  15. ↑ Wild, Sarah. "Sarah Wild". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "South Africa's leadership in HIV research is galvanizing to tackle coronavirus and develop tests". Quartz. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  17. ↑ "Sarah Wild - 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017". 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  18. ↑ Wild, Sarah (9 March 2017). "SARAH WILD: Time to resurrect the woolly mammoth — the umpteenth time".