Gavin Evans lectures in Cultural and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, London and is a senior lecturer at the London School of Journalism.

He has worked as a journalist for 32 years (writing for The New York Times,The Guardian, The Telegraph, Esquire, Men’s Health, The New Statesman, The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail and The New Internationalist, among many others).

He is the author of five books, including the memoir Dancing Shoes is Dead, short-listed for the Alan Paton non-fiction prize, and Black Brain, White Brain: Is Intelligence Skin-Deep, which focuses on the revival of scientific racism.