Science Communication

I am a practitioner-led science communicator, writing at the intersection of research and the public sphere. With a grounding in archaeology and palaeontology in Africa – and openness to wider science stories – my work interprets how scientific claims are produced, contextualised, and communicated. Rather than amplifying breakthroughs, I aim to translate research without flattening it, offering readers a more informed and critical way of engaging with scientific claims.

Editorial lens

My science communication work is shaped by a close interest in how research is actually done – the methods, questions, uncertainties, and contexts that sit behind published results. Rather than focusing only on headline findings, I’m drawn to the slower, less visible aspects of scientific work that often reveal how knowledge is built over time.

This means paying attention to process as much as outcome: how claims are shaped by evidence, how results remain provisional or contested, and how place, people, and research culture influence what we come to know. I’m interested in sharing the kinds of scientific stories that don’t always make headlines, but which invite curiosity, reflection, and a more textured understanding of science.

Selected Science Communication

How the Taung Child Shook up the Scientific World

A short reflection on the 100 year history of Taung and the ways it changed our understanding of human evolution.

Published in Wits Curios!ty Magazine, Issue 19 Disruptions

Artistic Interpretation of extinct hadedas
Artistic Interpretation of extinct hadedas
Hadedas, Alarm Clock to our Ancient Ancestors?

Leveraging the audience’s interest in birds to explore the fossil and evolutionary history of the Ibis family. With a focuss on recent research from the Cradle of Humankind.

Published in African Birdlife, Nov/Dec 2024

Sivathere Sculpture at West Coast Fossil Park
Sivathere Sculpture at West Coast Fossil Park
Langebaanweg – An Animal Archive

A three-part series exploring the history, context and remarkable finds of the world famous fossil site Langebaanweg.

Published on Palaeocast, Palaeontology Podcasts, Aug 2025

SQuARE Mission Patch
Reproduction of the Space Archaeology Projects Mission Patch
Space Archaeology is a Thing

A critical examination of space archaeology, what is is, what it isn’t and what terminology means to science.

Published on Penbridge Writing, Aug 2024

More Writing

For more science communication, essays, and reflective writing, you can browse the full archive here.

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Academia Doesnt Have All the Answers

Lessons from a Fundraising Workshop and NPO networking event

Curios.ty 19 Disruption

Ancient Disruptions

As the Taung Child fossil turns 100 years old, we look back to see what effect this captivating find…

Sivathere Sculpture at West Coast Fossil Park

Langebaanweg – Animal Archive

Discover what makes the fossil remains from Langebaanweg so unusual and amazing. Last part of series…

African Birdlife. July/August 2025. Cover Image

LoveBirds in Gauteng

Feature Article that explores the evolutionary history and fossil record of parrots and lovebirds in…

Artistic Interpretation of extinct hadedas

Hadedas, alarm clock to our ancient ancestors?

Feature Article on Ibis fossils from Africa. Published in African Birdlife. Covering hadeda ibis, ba…

Reconstruction of site formation at Langebaanweg

Langebaanweg Part Two

The sedimentoloy, environmental interpretations and controversies around how Langebaanweg and the bo…

Contact

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