Media

I was awarded the Society for Applied Microbiology Communications award 2008 at a presentation at the SfAM Conference at Stormont, Belfast in July 2008 for raising the profile of the problem of healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance to the wider public via TV, radio and the printed media. Examples of these include:

TV

ITN Trevor MacDonald programme on Superbugs (12/02/07)

BBC East Midlands Today interview with Carol Hinds (03/07/07)

BBC East Midlands Inside Out interview “C.difficile” with Marie Ashby (17/10/07)

Granada TV interview re Blackburn CA-MRSA outbreak (11/10/07)

BBC TV North West live interview re Blackburn CA-MRSA outbreak (11/10/07)

BBC TV News interview (08/01/08)

SKY TV News interview (08/01/08)

Spinal interview in BBC Panorama “How Safe is Your Hospital” (27/04/08)

Interview for BBC Inside Out programme on MRSA in care homes (02/05/08)

Interview for BBC Panorama follow up to “How safe is your hospital” (09/06/08)

Interview for BBC East Midlands on MRSA in pigs (09/06/08)

Interview and lab scenes filming for the Munhwa Broadcasting Cooperation (South Korea) for a story on C.difficile and MRSA in the programme “World-Wide-Weekly” broadcast on July 18, 2008

Interview for Central TV news on CA-MRSA and swine flu (21/07/09)

Interview with East Midlands Today (Rob Sissons) re E.coli O157 on farms story (21/09/09)

Interview for BBC East Midlands on Leslie Ash fund-raising video for CHAI story (18/11/09)

Interview with Craig Doyle re CHAI for ITV daybreak programme on infections (18/10/10)

Interviewed by Tom Brown  for BBC East Midlands Today story on MSSA colonization  (24/06/11)

Live interview for BBC News channel on Belfast hospital Pseudomonas infection story (20/01/12) 

Radio

Contributer to Radio 4 Frontiers programme “New Approaches to Infectious Diseases” (10/05/06)

BBC Radio 4 programme  “Warding off the germs” (12/02/07 and 19/02/07)

BBC Radio World Service Discovery programme “Hospital Acquired Infections” (24/10/07)

BBC Radio 4 Frontiers programme “Hospital Superbugs” (date?)

BBC Radio 4 “Rise of Resistance” Part 1 and 2 with Dr Mark Porter (04/04/07 and 11/04/07)

Interview on BBC Radio Stoke on Trent re MRSA screening (05/06/08)

Live interview on BBC Radio Nottingham on MRSA in pigs (09/06/08)

Live interview on BBC Five Live with Nicky Campbell on infections as part of the NHS 60 ^th Anniversary (30/06/08)

Live interview on BBC 3 Counties radio with Steven Rhodes on infections as part of the NHS 60 ^th Anniversary (30/06/08)

Live interview on BBC Northampton radio on infections as part of the NHS 60 ^th Anniversary (30/06/08)

Recorded interview with BBC Radio Nottingham on Antibiotics (23/07/08)

Live interview with BBC Radio Five live on Antibiotics (23/07/08)

Interview by Jenny Cuffe for BBC Radio Four File on Four programme on Community associated MRSA (01/09/08)

Interview for BBC World Service programme Science in Action on antibiotic discovery (09/06/09)

Live interview on BBC Material World programme on antibiotic discovery (11/06/09)

Interview for Smooth radio on CA-MRSA and swine flu (21/07/09)

Live interview with Radio Nottingham re E.coli O157 on farms story (21/09/09)

Interview for Radio Nottingham on banning bibles from hospital (8/8/10)

Interview by Adam Brimelow for Radio 4 6PM news item on NDM-1 superbug (12/08/10)

Live interview with Francis Finn at Radio Nottingham on antibiotics running out story (17/08/10)

Interview with Nora Kajantie – Finish Broadcasting Company YLE on the antibiotics running out story (20/08/10)

Interview for Radio Five Live on the Derby Hospital MSSA story (25/6/11)

Two Live interviews for Radio Five Live on Belfast hospital Pseudomonas infection story (20/01/12)

Interview on Belfast Pseudomonas infections with Dr Mark Porter for BBC Radio 4 Inside Health programme (31/01/12)

Interview on BBC World Service with Tom Hagler and Hasit Shah on the global problem of antibiotic resistance; linked to the forthcoming G8 meeting (12/06/13)

Interview with Simon Morton of Radio New Zealand National ThisWayUp programme on bacteriocins (24/11/15)

 

Print

Profiled in the Guardian in an article entitled “War on terror” (7/01/06)

Profiled in the Nottingham Evening Post in an article entitled “Stark prediction of man at leading edge of fight” (01/02/06)

Invited article “The tale of a microbiologist and the media” (01/09/07) for The Microbiologist Vol 8 No 3

Invited article “Battling the bug” (03/12/07) for The House Magazine Health Special report

Contributed to articles re CMO England report on antibiotic resistance (March 2013)

Interview with Emma Dorey for an article in Chemistry & Industry magazine (13/06/13)

Contributed a Comment article in The Guardian “The antibiotics apocalypse: at last, hope” (21/11/15)

Contributer to a New Scientist article by Penny Sarchet entitled Antibiotic apocalypse: tales from fighters on the front line (30/04/16)