Ehsan Masood
| Ehsan Masood | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 47–48) |
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BBC Nature New Scientist Research Fortnight Imperial College London |
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Portsmouth Polytechnic Birkbeck, University of London |
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Ehsan Masood (born August 1967) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster. He is the editor of Research Fortnight[1] and teaches international science policy at Imperial College London.
Biography
Born in London in 1967, his father Hassan Masood worked in actuarial science and his mother Shamsa Masood is a writer of short fiction in Urdu. He went to schools in York, Karachi and London; studied applied physics at Portsmouth Polytechnic and science communication at Birkbeck, University of London.
He worked for the journal Nature[2][3] as a writer from 1995 to 1999 and again as acting chief commissioning editor in 2008/2009. He has also worked as Opinion Editor of New Scientist and communications director at LEAD International.[4]
Masood has also written for Prospect magazine and openDemocracy.net, as well as The Times, The Guardian and Le Monde. He is a trustee of Leadership for Environment and Development and also advises the British Council on science and on cultural relations.
Ehsan Masood is a regular contributor to Home Planet, an environmental affairs programme on BBC Radio 4 in the UK and a trustee of The Muslim Institute.[5]
Selected publications
Ehsan Masood's latest book is Science and Islam: A History.[6] This tells the story of how science developed during Islam's imperial period from 800 to 1500. It is the official tie-in to a three-part documentary series on BBC Television presented by Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey.
His other publications include:
- Our Shared Europe This is a report for a major new British Council programme of activities aimed at reducing mistrust between non-Muslim and Muslim communities.
- Dry: Life Without Water, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press 2006 ISBN 0-674-02224-6 (editor with Daniel Schaffer)
- How Do You Know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations, London: Pluto Press 2006 ISBN 0-7453-2514-9 (editor)
- British Muslims: Media Guide, published by the British Council in association with the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, 2006. Download a copy of British Muslims: Media Guide here
- The GM Debate: Who Decides? Analysing Decision-making on Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries, London: Panos 2005
In the media
- In February 2009, Ehsan Masood presented a three-part series for BBC Radio 4 entitled Islam and Science
- Ehsan Masood is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's environmental affairs programme Home Planet
- Islam's reformers, Prospect article by Ehsan Masood republished on Wanabehuman.
- Science, Development, Faith Ehsan's Open Democracy columns
- Islam and Science Special issue of Nature, November 2006[7]
- Ehsan Masood talks about Dry: Life Without Water on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4, 29 May 2006
- Televised discussion on climate security at Carleton University, Canada with John Ashton, Simon Dalby and hosted by Ken Rockburn of CPAC's Talk Politics show, February 2007
References
- ↑ Research Fortnight, UK's leading source of news and data on research funding and policy
- ↑ Saegusa, A.; Masood, E. (1997). "Transgenic patents a step closer in Europe". Nature 390 (6659): 429. doi:10.1038/37175. PMID 9393986.
- ↑ Masood, E. (2012). "Arab liberals must stay in the game". Nature 488 (7410): 131. doi:10.1038/488131a. PMID 22874928.
- ↑ LEAD International, non-profit sustainable development training and networking organization
- ↑ The Muslim Institute
- ↑ Ehsan Masood (2010). Science & Islam: A History. Toronto: Totem Books. ISBN 1-84831-081-1.
- ↑ Masood, E. (2006). "Islam and Science: An Islamist revolution". Nature 444 (7115): 22–25. doi:10.1038/444022a. PMID 17080057.
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