Media appearances

Professor Jacqueline Barnes

• Research backs work for new parents through Family Nurse Partnership (31 January 2011): Article in Prevention Action about Professor Barnes' research on the Nurse Family Partnership Program.
• Professor Jacqueline Barnes attended a breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 16 May 2007 for a discussion about the Nurse Family Partnership intervention, developed in the USA by Professor David Olds. Also at the meeting were Professor Olds, Hilary Armstrong MP (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion), Louise Casey (co-ordinator for the Home Office Respect Task Force), Kate Billingham (Deputy Chief Nursing Officer and director of the implementation of the intervention in England), and nurses from some of the sites who are offering the programme. The meeting was the topic of an article on the front page of the Guardian on the same day.

Professor Jay Belsky

• Professor Jay Belsky's research on child care was discussed in the Sunday Times on 8 August 2010, and was also featured in The Guardian on 2 October 2010
• Professor Belsky’s research on insecure attachment predicting earlier pubertal development in females, published in Psychological Science, was discussed in the Los Angeles Times on 2 September 2010.
• Professor Jay Belsky's work on and thinking about the effects of nursery care was discussed in the Sunday Times on 6 June 2010.
• Professor Belsky was also featured on the BBC4 television special on the Biology of Dads on 23 June 2010.
• Professor Jay Belsky’s thinking and research on genetically moderated differential susceptibility to environmental influences was highlighted in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, published in the USA.
• Professor Belsky was quoted in The Independent on 20 October 2009 regarding the role of father in the family in response to a report documenting the low uptake of paternity leave by men.
• Professor Belsky’s and Dr Michael Pluess’s research on children’s differential susceptibility to the effects of daycare was the focus of a Wall Street Journal story on 22 July 2009.
• Professor Belsky was interviewed on BBC News 24 about the effects of imprisonment on the children of Joseph Fritzl, who held his daughter captive for 24 years in a basement.
• Professor Belsky and Michael Pluess' research on the effects of daycare was featured in the 17 April 2009 online issue of Newsweek.
• Professor Jay Belsky was quoted in a story in the Telegraph about father involvement on 12 February 2009 entitled ‘House husbands: Are you man enough?’
• Professor Belsky’s evolution-informed research on family influences on female pubertal development is discussed in the 26 November 2008 issue of the New Scientist, in an article entitled ‘The dizzying diversity of human sexual strategies.
• Professor Belsky was interviewed about fathers and child development on Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, broadcast throughout Russia and former Soviet bloc, on 6 March 2009.
• Professor Belsky’s research conducted as part of the National Evaluation of Sure Start was mentioned on Radio 4’s Today programme on 13 January 2009 during an interview with Cabinet Office Minister Liam Byrne on social mobility.
• Professor Belsky was one of a small panel on BBC 4 television discussing childhood in the UK on 11 December 2008.

Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon

• Sex: the next ethical industry? 8 December 2010: Dr Brooks-Gordon cited in an article for Grist online magazine.
• Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze on 25 November 2009.
• Dr Brooks-Gordon was interviewed on LBC Radio 97.3 FM’s The Breakfast Show with Nick Ferrari about a Court of Appeal case, the problems with adversarial legal systems, and authoritarian laws which lack discretion and thus have no compassion.
• Dr Brooks-Gordon was interviewed by The Daily Mail as part of a special investigation by Tom Rawstorne entitled ‘The myth of Britain’s foreign sex slaves’ (Friday 13 November 2009).
• Dr Brooks-Gordon was interviewed by Helen Croydon of The Times for an article entitled ‘Is sex for the disabled the last taboo?’ (12 November 2009).
• Dr Brooks-Gordon’s work is mentioned in an article in The Daily Telegraph entitled ‘Two in three rescued women have vanished again’ (16 September 2009).
• Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon was interviewed by Jenni Murray for the Women’s Hour programme on BBC Radio 4. The segment entitled ‘Paying for Sex’ aired on 4 March 2009.
• Dr Brooks-Gordon was mentioned and quoted in a Sunday Times article entitled ‘Sex and disability: What can we learn?’ on 15 February 2009.
• Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon was featured in an article in the Observer/Guardian Education entitled ‘Big Brothel research seriously flawed’ on 3 October 2008.
• Dr Brooks-Gordon was also featured in an article in the Guardian entitled ‘Playing politics with sex workers’ on 16 October 2008.

Professor Mark Johnson

• Third edition of Research and Markets: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, reviewed by the SunHerald: 22 February 2011.

Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith

• In our time: The Infant Brain, 4 March 2010: Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
• Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Birkbeck’s Babylab were featured in an episode of the BBC series Horizon entitled 'What makes a genius?' on 17 February 2010, in which Professor Karmiloff- Smith was interviewed about face processing in infants and genetics.
• Professor Karmiloff-Smith and Professor Denis Mareschal were interviewed about The Infant Brain by Melvin Bragg for In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 on 25 February 2010.

Dr Matthew Longo

• All in the mind: Interview with BBC Radio 4, on research that  found that feelings of claustrophobia could be related to our sense of personal space and it could be determined by the length of our arms.
• Look at Your Body to Reduce Pain: report in InSciences (10 February 2011) on research that showed that viewing your hand reduces the pain experienced when a hot object touches the skin.
• Pain reduced by changing what you look at: same study covered by BBC News - 10 February 2011
• When it comes to size, our brains can't handle the truth - Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2010
• Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts - Science Daily, 15 June 2010
• Brain 'distorts own body image - BBC News, 15 June 2010
• Distorted body image means people don't know the back of their own hands - Guardian, 14 June 2010
• The brain thinks hands are wider and stubbier than they actually are - Scientific American, 14 June 2010
• Brain Holds Hand at Arm's Length from Reality - Scientific American, 14 June 2010

Professor Denis Mareschal

• Kids Literally See Differently Than Adults, Research Shows: Yahoo News, 11 July 2011.
• In our time: The Infant Brain, 4 March 2010: Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
• Professor Denis Mareschal and the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development have been featured on a program entitled 'Growing Babies’ aired on BBC4. Professor Mareschal spoke about biases that guide the orientation of infants’ attention early in development. These early biases lead infants learn about certain things (e.g. faces) in the world earlier and better than other things. This suggests that the very impressive early abilities of infants may in fact result from impressive learning abilities rather than innate knowledge.

Professor Ted Melhuish

• Sure Start: Are children really benefiting? Article citing Professor Melhuish on the BBC website: 12 July 2011.
• Professor Ted Melhuish was interviewed by the national newspaper of Chile and a major article appeared in the newspaper.
• The publication in Lancet of a paper on the beneficial effects associated with Sure Start programmes upon three-year-olds and their families led to several media interviews by Professor Melhuish. Furthermore, when UNICEF published their report card of international comparisons on childcare, Professor Melhuish was interviewed by several newspapers and radio programmes.
• 2008: At the request of Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Professor Ted Melhuish presented the evidence for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which came into effect throughout England in September 2008, in numerous press conferences and interviews.

Dr Angelica Ronald

• Dr Angelica Ronald’s research was featured in an article entitled ‘Is autism a single condition?’ in The Times' Eureka science magazine.

Dr Alex Shepherd

• Shepherd A.J. Visual triggers of migraine and headache. Lighting (2010) 30: 14-24.
• Dogs Catch Human Yawns: LiveScience report on research findings (17 September 2008)
• Pet dogs can 'catch' human yawns: BBC report on research findings (5 August 2008)
• Study probes migraine triggers: Dr Shepherd cited in BBC article. (10 April 2004)