About
Charlotte Austwick is an award-winning explorer, anthropologist, writer, and public speaker.
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Charlotte aims to understand the world and its people both past and present. Her work is distinctive and her approaches contemporary. Charlotte mixes adventure with scholarship. She is currently a doctoral researcher in Social Anthropology and has recently spent months living with indigenous people in the savannahs and heart of the Amazon rainforest in South America.
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In 2019, she was named the Scientific Exploration Societies River Foundation Explorer for Health and Humanities. This was for her work in Belize preserving Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya heritage and language. Following this award she has since published and edited two books in the above endangered indigenous languages.
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In 2022 she was named as one of the top 50 Most Influential Neurodiverse Women by ‘Women Beyond the Box’ and was awarded the Cadogan Award for Resilience by the British Dyslexia Association.
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