Best Australian Science Writing 2016

Jo Chandler is an award-winning freelance Australian journalist, author and editor and an Honorary Fellow at Deakin Universitys Contemporary Histories Research Group. She has filed news and features from assignments across sub-Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea, rural and remote Australia, Antarctica and Afghanistan. She has earned distinctions as an essayist, profile writer and narrative journalist, and is recognised for work across a range of specialty areas: science; environment; health; human rights; womens and childrens issues; aid and development. In late 2015 she was invited as a guest lecturer to Columbia University to discuss her work in PNG with students in the journalism and anthropology programs. Chandler is presently developing several freelance writing projects and producing her first radio documentary for ABC Radio Nationals Background Briefing program.