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Emma Young


Emma Young is an award-winning science and medical journalist and author. She has a degree in psychology and 25 years’ experience working on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney.
Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she also freelances articles and writes books.

Emma was born in Australia, Adelaide, but now resides in England.

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