Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Vybarr Cregan-Reid (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 did a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship at Sussex from 2004–2006.

Before that, he published Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative & the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture (2013).

He has appeared on Sky and ITV, and made programmes for the BBC.

Cregan-Reid grew up in Manchester and studied English at the University of Sussex.

He currently works at the University of Kent, where he won the university's 'Best Teacher' award in 2015.

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 and the British Council.

He has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Literary Review, The I, Wanderlust, The Big Issue and Countryfile.

He has hosted live radio on BBC Radio 5Live, 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 and Canadian CBC.

He has also written and presented two series for the BBC World Service, Changing World, Changing Bodies, which looked at how different parts of the modern body (like feet, backs, and faces ) are changing in different parts of the world.

The second series looked at how modern life affects sleep, how it has driven our height, and longevity.

He is the author of Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human (2016), and Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us (2018).