Max Glaskin award-winning journalist
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He writes clearly about how developments in design, engineering and technology affect lives.
He has 25 years experience of writing news and features, editing, sub-editing and commissioning for consumer, specialist and busines-to-business magazines around the world, and for national newspapers and book publishers.
Read samples of his work from the Sunday Times, New Scientist, and The Engineer
Max was born in London, UK, and educated in Nottingham before studying archaeology at University College, Cardiff, during which he supervised excavations at Stonehenge Avenue and was awarded a BSc (Hons) degree. He trained as a reporter on the Wrexham Leader weekly newspaper and then became the editor of Bicycle magazine, London.
He took part in natural history expeditions to the Treshnish Isles and Jura (Scotland), and rode the first mountain bike over the Greater Himalaya into Ladakh, India. With Jeremy Torr, Max co-wrote Mountain Biking (Pelham) and co-founded the Mountain Bike Club, organising the UK national championship series for five years and promoting off-road cycling. His efforts were formally recognised in 2008 when he was among the first 20 to be inducted into the Mountain Biking UK Hall of Fame.
He contributed technology features to Engineering magazine for many years and has been a prolific contributor to the Sunday Times (of London), New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, The Times (of London), the London Evening Standard and Design magazine.
Max co-presented a BBC Education TV series about Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He was twice nominated for BT's Technology Journalist of the Year awards and, in 2000, received the Journalist of the Year Award from the Association for Geographic Information, for his articles about navigation satellites.
He was the researcher for Alistair Beaton's eco-thriller "A Planet for the President" and is collaborating with photographer Martin Burton on a documentary project, Quite Human. Max edited the science journal Enigma and is a regular contributor to The Engineer, Auto Express, Traffic Technology International, Transport Times and the London Evening Standard.