I have been interviewed on research related matters for the following media  

Television

09/01/2006 - TV3 and Irish National Television – obesity debate

09/01/2006 - RTE1 Irish National Television – obesity debate  

09/01/2006 – SKY News Ireleand – obesity debate  

04/06/2005 – Channel 4 News Television Interview on the ‘Obesity epidemic’ – This channel 4 news report included a feature on a book authored by Michael Gard and Jan Wright, ‘The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology’ followed by a discussion between myself and Tam Fry of the Child Growth foundation.  

Radio  

13/07/2006 – The Simon Mayo Show, BBC Radio 5 live. School Sport discussion  

04/07/2006 – BBC Radio 4 Womens Hour ‘How useful are Government measures against childhood obesity?’  Listen here

22/05/2003 – BBC world service radio interview on women and sport

22/06/2006 – Leicester Sound – Discussion on Body Mass Index Measurements in schools

Newspapers (print and online)

30/06/2006 – The Times Educational Supplement ‘Stigma of Topping the Fat League’ p.2  

29/06/2006 – Loughborough Mail ‘Fears over school weigh-ins’, front page  

28/06/2006 – The Christian Science Monitor, BOSTON USA, (international daily newspaper) ’Venus Williams at Wimbledon: Show women the money’ Interview on pay disparity between men and women in professional tennis  

22/06/2006 – Medindia.com – ‘Study says screening of children’s weight in schools would put them under pressure’

21/06/2006 – Guardian – Society Health Section online – ‘Warning over ‘damaging’ school weight screenings  

21/06/2006 – Guardian – Education school sports section online  - ‘Warning over ‘damaging’ school weight screenings’

21/06/2006 – SCENTA – Science, engineering and technology news, ‘Weighing threat for children’ Childhood obesity measurements in schools could do more harm than good, warn researchers’  

20/06/2006 – Freemarketnews.com ‘childhood obesity measurements harmful’

20/06/2006 – news-medical.net ‘Childood obesity measurements could do more harm than good’  

10/01/2006 – Irish Independent – ‘Fights against the flab ‘could be worse than the flab itself’  

16/11/2005 - Leicester Mercury – School stress ’link to cases of anorexia’

11/11/2005 - Times Education – ‘When Cakes are good for you’ , p.5

Other

21/06/2006 – National Union of Teachers on the Web, News Archive – ‘weight checks will case eating disorders’

10/07/2006 - NEWS RX ‘worlds largest source of health news’ – Childhood obesity measurements in schools could do more harm than good, warn researchers