Woods Lecture Series: Anjana Khatwa
The Whispers of Rock
Dr. Anjana Khatwa is an award-winning earth scientist who has worked for several universities, the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and the National Trust. Dr. Khatwa has contributed to and presented TV programs for the BBC as well as ITV. She has been given the Geographical Award for public engagement by the Royal Geographical Society, the RH Worth Award by the Geological Society of London, and the Halstead Medal from the Geologists’ Association. In 2021, she received a National Diversity Award in recognition of her work to champion inclusion within earth science and natural heritage and the same year was longlisted for the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing. The Whispers of Rock is her first book and was selected as a Book of the Year by New Scientist and Nature and was longlisted for the prestigious Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.