Lloyd Spencer DavisIn addition to being an award-winning scientist, Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis is also an award-winning writer, photographer, filmmaker and university teacher. He currently holds the Stuart Chair in Science Communication at the University of Otago where, among other things, he teaches creative nonfiction writing.
Lloyd is the author of
Penguin: a season in the life of the Adélie penguin, for which he received the PEN (NZ) Best First Book Award for Nonfiction;
The Plight of the Penguin, which was NZ Post's New Zealand Children's Book of the Year in 2002, as well as the winner of the nonfiction category at the same awards.
His book, the
Smithsonian Q&A Penguins: a book commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution that provides a complete story on penguins in the form of questions and answers, which Lloyd has artfully arranged so that one answer typically leads to the next question – allowing the book to be read from cover to cover, rather like a novel, while still functioning as a reference book.
In 2009, he launched “Penguins of New Zealand” (with photographs by Rod Morris). As the publisher, New Holland, says on it’s website: “New Zealand and its territories are home to a greater number of penguin species than any other region on the planet...Lloyd Spencer Davis, one of the country’s top researchers into penguin biology and behaviour, has written an informative and accessible guide to 12 species, covering all key aspects from their evolution and prehistory to their feeding and breeding behaviour and current conservation issues.”
