Professor Kevin Jones (LEC) is quoted on the China Daily website in an article about his research into chemical pollutants.
Dr Debra Ferreday (Sociology) was quoted in The Sunday Times magazine, November 27, in a cover feature on tanning.
Research led by Dr David Allsop (FHM) to develop a blood test to detect Parkinson’s disease features widely in the media, including, MediLexicon, Medical News Today, LabSpaces.net, EurekAlert, Best Syndication, London Free Press, Bright Surf website, Barchester website, Net Doctor, Innovations report, Med India, One News Page, Med Guru,News Track India, Newsodrome website and KopalniaWiedzy.
Professor Richard Bardgett (LEC) was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today about his research involving soils and food production.
Professor Mike Kosch (Physics) is featured in the December issue of the BBC Lonely Planet travel magazine (pg2), in an article about the Northern Lights.
Professor Paul Farley (English & Creative Writing) had his book “Edgelands: Journeys Into England’s True Wilderness “included in some of the annual Books of the Year lists in the media last week, including the Observer and the Spectator; Edgelands was also picked up on bloggers’ lists of books of 2011, such as the Intelligent Economist. The book, co-written with fellow poet Michael Symmons Roberts, is released in paperback in the New Year.
Deputy Vice- Chancellor Professor Bob McKinlay was quoted in the Lancashire Evening Post, 28 November, about Lancaster University’s announcement of a new partnership with Lancaster and Morecambe College. The story was also covered by the Lancaster Guardian, 1 December.
Dr Fiona Measham (Applied Social Science) was quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 28 November in an article about growth in the use of the drug ecstasy. This also appeared on the bikyamasr website in Egypt.
The new portrait of Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings was featured on The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ website.
Dr Kate Cain (Psychology) was mentioned on the Psychologist website in an article on women in psychology.
Alumnus Jon Moulton was featured in the Guardian Friday Interview section.
Dr Veronika Koller (Linguistics and English Language) is quoted in the magazine Communications Director about her work on metaphor in corporate communications.
Professor Cary Cooper (LUMS) was interviewed by National Geographic TV for a history documentary on Lord Monmouth to be broadcast in several weeks time.
Research by Dr Paul Baker (Linguistics and English Language) into the representation of Muslims in the media is featured on the iengage website.
Student Cherry Canovan (Physics), who won an award from the magazine Red for women in the workplace, appears on the Science and Technology Facilities Council website. .