Alom Shaha was born on 1973 and is a British-Bangladeshi science teacher, writer, and filmmaker.
11 Facts About Alom Shaha
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Alom Shaha's books include The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God, Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: adventures in science round the kitchen table, and Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines: adventures in making round the kitchen table.
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Alom Shaha has written for The Guardian, The Big Issue, BBC Science Focus, New Humanist and New Scientist and spoken at events such as the Richmond Literature Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival.
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Alom Shaha taught at Camden School for Girls from 2008 to 2020 and The Watford UTC.
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Alom Shaha was elected a councillor in the 1998 Southwark London Borough Council election for the London Borough of Southwark for the Liberal Democrats.
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Alom Shaha is a patron of Humanists UK, who have sent his books to secondary schools in the UK.
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Alom Shaha's work has been recognised by fellowships awarded by Nesta and the Nuffield Foundation, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association in 2024.
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Alom Shaha has worked on content creation for the BBC and the Royal Institution.
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Alom Shaha has published books on popular science aimed at children, teenagers and their families including:.
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Alom Shaha has co-authored textbooks on GCSE Science and A-Level Physics for the AQA examination board published by Oxford University Press:.
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Alom Shaha speaks Sylheti fluently having been born in a small village in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.