Claudia Canavan

Digital beauty + health editor at Women's Health; founder of Sourced by HuffPost

United Kingdom

Hey!

I'm a digital journalist and editor. I currently work on the Women's Health UK site, heading up health and beauty content.

I founded HuffPost Sourced, a sustainable living section on the national site, all about eco living.

I'm a graduate of City University's Magazine Journalism MA, with a BA from the University of Manchester.

Portfolio
Women's Health
07/13/2020
Netflix's Athlete A Is Trending - Here's What the Directors Want You to Know

Melissa J. Perenson / Netflix *Trigger warning: details of sexual abuse of minors* There is a moment in Netflix documentary Athlete A- which excavates USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse of hundreds of girls over 20 years, and the culture that allowed him to persist-that made my blood feel like it had been extracted, incubated in an ice box and poured back into my veins.

Women's Health
11/18/2019
Untangling Tattle Life - What Drove Clemmie Hooper to Troll her Tribe

What is the cruellest thing you've ever said about someone else? The most mean-spirited utterance that rose from a dank and dirty recess of your mind? Take that. Now, imagine your fingers have flickered over a keyboard and typed it into permanence in cyberspace.

Women's Health
10/09/2018
The GM Superfoods

What do pink pineapples, high-fibre bread and coeliac-friendly wheat have in common? As the next generation of genetically modified foods, they promise to elevate not just flavour or aesthetics, but your health, too

Women's Health
09/12/2018
Meet The Doctritionists

Frustrated by the gaping nutrition-shaped hole in their medical training, some doctors are pushing the healing and preventative power of food to the fore. WH catches up with medicine’s new wave

Women's Health UK
08/07/2018
You Call This Dinner?

More of you than ever are chowing down unaccompanied and, because you're minus an audience, toast, bowls of cereal and cold meal-prep leftovers are passing for main meals. Not great for your nutrition or happiness. Time to upgrade with some solo kitchen self-care.

Esquire
01/16/2014
The Watch That Wants To Change Your Life

'Five minutes' is a funny thing. Driving down the motorway, with the drone of tyres under your stir-crazed legs, it can drag out for an eternity. At drunken parties, that leave you dazed in the 5am sunlight, it's a darting sequence of seconds. On the whole, our ability to accurately gauge time is fairly shambolic.

Wired
03/14/2014
Each cabinet office PC costs UK taxpayers £7,000 a year. Why?

If you want to get an idea of how the UK public sector came to spend £17 billion per year -- that's the equivalent of 30-odd new hospitals -- on information technology as recently as 2009-2010, you could do worse than delve inito the recent history of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and its new IT system.