Vybarr Cregan-Reid ( /ˈvaɪbɑː ˌkriːɡənˈriːd/ VYE-bar KREE-gən-REED; [1] born 1969) is a British author, academic and broadcaster. He works at the University of Kent where he is a Professor of English & Environmental Humanities. He is the author of Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human (2016), and Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us (2018). Before that, he published Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative & the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture (2013). He has appeared on Sky [2] and ITV, and made programmes for the BBC. [3]
Cregan-Reid grew up in Manchester and studied English at the University of Sussex. He did a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship at Sussex from 2004–2006. [4] He currently works at the University of Kent, where he won the university's 'Best Teacher' award in 2015. [5]
As a journalist, Vybarr Cregan-Reid has written widely on the subjects of literature, nature, health and the environment. He has had work commissioned by The Barbican [10] and the British Council. [11] He has written for The Guardian, [12] [13] [14] The Observer, [15] The Daily Telegraph, [16] The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, [17] The Literary Review, The I, Wanderlust, The Big Issue and Countryfile. [18] He has hosted live radio on BBC Radio 5Live, [19] read his work and been interviewed a number of times of BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. He has also been on radio stations throughout the world such as NPR [20] [21] and Canadian CBC. [22] He has also written and presented two series for the BBC World Service, Changing World, Changing Bodies, [23] which looked at how different parts of the modern body (like feet, [24] backs, [25] and faces [26]) are changing in different parts of the world. The second series looked at how modern life affects sleep, [27] how it has driven our height, [28] and longevity.
Vybarr Cregan-Reid ( /ˈvaɪbɑː ˌkriːɡənˈriːd/ VYE-bar KREE-gən-REED; [1] born 1969) is a British author, academic and broadcaster. He works at the University of Kent where he is a Professor of English & Environmental Humanities. He is the author of Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human (2016), and Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us (2018). Before that, he published Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative & the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture (2013). He has appeared on Sky [2] and ITV, and made programmes for the BBC. [3]
Cregan-Reid grew up in Manchester and studied English at the University of Sussex. He did a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship at Sussex from 2004–2006. [4] He currently works at the University of Kent, where he won the university's 'Best Teacher' award in 2015. [5]
As a journalist, Vybarr Cregan-Reid has written widely on the subjects of literature, nature, health and the environment. He has had work commissioned by The Barbican [10] and the British Council. [11] He has written for The Guardian, [12] [13] [14] The Observer, [15] The Daily Telegraph, [16] The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, [17] The Literary Review, The I, Wanderlust, The Big Issue and Countryfile. [18] He has hosted live radio on BBC Radio 5Live, [19] read his work and been interviewed a number of times of BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. He has also been on radio stations throughout the world such as NPR [20] [21] and Canadian CBC. [22] He has also written and presented two series for the BBC World Service, Changing World, Changing Bodies, [23] which looked at how different parts of the modern body (like feet, [24] backs, [25] and faces [26]) are changing in different parts of the world. The second series looked at how modern life affects sleep, [27] how it has driven our height, [28] and longevity.