Mike McRae

Mike is a seasoned science writer and editor with extensive experience in teaching and a personal mission to promote science through journalism and education.

For more than two decades, he's been writing and editing science news stories and producing digital science classroom resources for classrooms around the world. Behind this is solid classroom experience, having taught in Australia and the UK.

Mike has written and produced documentaries on psychology for ABC Radio National in Australia, and delivered a variety of public talks on education, science, philosophy, history, and psychology. He's a published author through the University of Queensland Press, with books on the culture of science titled Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas (2011) and Unwell: What Makes a Disease a Disease? (2018).