Professor Awais Rashid (Computing) was featured on the BBC 6 o’clock news on Monday, May 31, talking about project Isis, which is developing tools to apprehend online paedophiles. The Lancaster project team includes: Professor Awais Rashid, Professor Corinne May-Chahal, Professor Geoff Coulson, Dr James Walkerdine, Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Phil Greenwood, Alistair Baron, Dr Stuart Kirby and Dr Suzanne Ost. The research is also aired in a documentary on Ireland’s RTE programme on Monday 31 at 9:30pm. also ITN online and The Independent. The research was featured internationally – in the New Zealand Herald, Malaysia Sun, Australian IT, NetIndia123 , The Times of India and in Science Daily.
Professor Rashid also spoke to Austrian radio, and BBC radio Sussex and Suffolk.
Dr David Lucy (Maths & Stats) was featured on the BBC One Show, 31 May, who demonstrated in an experiment that showed the slim statistical chances of winning at fairground Hoopla. Listen again at 02.15 into the programme. This story was also mentioned on the BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, 29 May.
News of Professor Brian Wynne’s (Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen)) resignation from the Steering Group of the Food Standards Agency’s public dialogue ‘Food: the use of GM’ this week sparked national and international coverage this week. Professor Wynne discussed a series of concerns about the public dialogue on R4’s Today Programme on Wednesday and in the Daily Telegraph and BBC.
It was also reported in the Daily Mail and overseas.
Professor Cary Cooper (LUMS) was interviewed on June 3, on BBC West Midlands, breakfast programme, about the psychological effects of the Cumbria killings, on individuals and the community, and on LBC Radio, June 5 about the concerns and expectations of young people, based on the Theo Walcott disappointment.
A review of a new book called Nature, Technology and the Sacred by Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski (Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy) appears in The Good Gear Guide 30/05/2010.
Professor Roger Kemp (Engineering) was interviewed for Radio 4's You and Yours programme today ( 4 June) about electric vehicles following a report by The Royal Academy of Engineering last week, which says that vehicles are only as ‘green’ as the electricity that charges their batteries.
Dr Carolyn Jackson (Educational Research) is quoted in the Times Educational Supplement on stress felt by schoolchildren.