BBC World Service
Claudia Hammond
- Berlin Science Week
- 2026
- Highlight Speaker
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and psychology lecturer. Claudia presents podcasts and radio shows including All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 covering psychology, neuroscience & mental health, and Health Check and The Evidence, shows about global health on BBC World Service,
Claudia is the author of six books which have been translated into more than twenty languages. The books include: Overwhelmed, The Art of Rest and Mind Over Money.
She is Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex and lectures in social psychology at Boston University’s base in London.
Her awards include the President's Medal from the British Academy, The Best Popular Science Book Award from the British Psychological Society for Time Warped, and The Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award from the British Neuroscience Association
Claudia’s passion is to share the ways that psychological and medical research can help us in our everyday lives, whether through radio or through her books.
