Tim Radford
Born	1940 New Zealand
Education	Sacred Heart College, Auckland
Occupation(s)	Journalist and writer
Notable credit(s)	Science editor at The Guardian, 1980–2005
Children	2

Tim Radford (born 1940) is a British–New Zealand freelance journalist, born in New Zealand in 1940 and educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland.^[1] At 16, he joined The New Zealand Herald as a reporter. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961, working at first as a Whitehall information officer.

Radford worked for The Guardian newspaper for 32 years. Over the course of his career, he was letters editor, arts editor, literary editor, and science editor — holding the latter post from 1980 until 2005.^[2] He also served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He is married with two adult children.^[1]

Awards

Radford has won four Association of British Science Writers awards:^[3]

• Lifetime achievement award for services to science journalism, 2004
• Best feature on science subject in a national or regional newspaper, 2004, for Touching the Void, published in The Guardian on 22 July 2004
• Best communication of science in a non-science context, 2001, for Tell us, Solly, published in the London Review of Books on 20 September 2001
• Other awards in 1992 and 1997