Gaia Vince
Gaia Vince is an honorary senior research fellow at UCL and a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made, and she is also the author of Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time. Her latest book, Nomad Century, is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where – and how – we live. It is a book of solutions and also a rousing call to arms, describing how we can plan for and manage the now unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state.
Videos
Gaia Vince @ 5x15 - Hacking the nervous system
Past Events
Merlin Sheldrake on Entangled Life
Multi-award-winning writer and biologist Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into the spectacular world of fungi.
5x15 x Keystone Positive Change: Migration
5x15 x Keystone Positive Change present the third in our Six Ideas to Change the World series, with Gaia Vince on climate migration
The Earth Convention - The Four Elements: Fire
5x15 and Rathbones present the Four Elements, the second series of panels in the Earth Convention series. This panel looks at Fire.
5x15 Notting Hill - February 2020
5 speakers, 15 minutes each. An evening of innovation, ideas and inspiration.