Media coverage
My own research and/or the projects in which I have worked with others at UCL Geography and CASA have gained attention through the following media features:
Selected media features 2006-2008
2008 ‘Website maps surnames worldwide” BBC News, 30 Aug http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7588968.stm
2008 “Putting you on the map: the website that pinpoints where your name is in the world’ The Independent 30 Aug http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/putting-you-on-the-map-the-website-that-pinpoints-where-your-name-is-in-the-world-913312.html
2008 ‘Global surname website launched’ Channel 4 News, 30 Aug
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/global+surname+website+launched/2438237
2008 ‘Mapping London’s immigration’ BBC News, 27 March http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7315460.stm
2007 ‘The 50 most common British surnames, by postal town‘ The Observer 18 Apr. http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Observer/documents/2007/04/18/observer_surnames.pdf
2007 ‘Britain’s moving story’ The New Statesman, 15 January http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/01/cornish-names-british-family
2007 ‘Website focus on surnames’, Practical Family History magazine, February (110) p. 64-65
2006 ‘The Global Geography of Surnames”, Geographical: The magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, November, v. 78 (11) p. 12
2006 ‘The name game: How to trace your surname across the globe’, The Times, 31 August, front cover and p.5 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article623423.ece
2006 ‘Riddle of the most travelled Britons’, The Independent, 31 August, p.10
2006 ‘How British names conquered the world’, Daily Telegraph, 31 August, p. 4
2006 ‘Most adventurous surnames mapped’ BBC News on-line, 31 August.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5301032.stm
2006 ‘End of the innuendo’, The Guardian, news blog, 31 August.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/31/end_of_the_innuendo.html
2006 ‘Name check reveals a new pecking order’, The Sunday Times, 4 June, p.8
2005 ‘Team find sickly postcodes’, report in Camden New Journal, 17 July, p. 17.
2005 ‘This sceptered aisle: Tesco is successful chiefly because it understands Britain. But it is also changing the place’, The Economist, 4 August, p. 23
Press Coverage in August-September 2008, after the launch of WorldNames website:
http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/
BBC Online – [link]
BBC Radio 4 – [link] and [link]
The Independent [link]
Channel4 news – [link]
Telegraph – [link]
The Scotsman – [link]
The Press Association [link]
New Zealand Herald – [link]
SG.HU (Hungary)- [link]
ZDNet.de (Germany)- [link]
Telekom Presse (Austria) – [link]
Presstext (Germany)[link]
Globo (Brazil) – [link]
Yahoo News Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – [link]
Saigon Giai Phong Online (Vietnam) – [link]
News.com.au (Australia) [link]
Mbl.is (Iceland) [link]
Computerwoche.de (Germany) [link]
WebUser – [link]
Worthing Herald – [link]
Portugal Diario – [link]
The Dominion Post – [link]
Press Coverage in 2006, after the launch of GB Surname Profiler website:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/
15 Jan 2006 | Sunday Observer, Glasgow Sunday Herald |
16 Jan 2006 | Channel 4 Website & Lunchtime News |
17 Jan 2006 | BBC News Feature Article / News Page, Eastern Daily Press,Innovations Report (German Online News), BBC Radio Linc. |
18 Jan 2006 | Express and Star (Midlands), Western Mail (Wales), PC Pro,Mac User, Computer Buyer, Computer Shopper, UCL Website,Blackpool Today. |
19 Jan 2006 | BBC Radio Scotland |
20 Jan 2006 | Guardian Weekly (International), Romford Recorder |
21 Jan 2006 | The Times, The Daily Mail |
24 Jan 2006 | Swindon Advertiser |
25 Jan 2006 | Radio 2 Website of the Day, Miles Mendoza Website of the Day, BBC Midlands Today. |
26 Jan 2006 | Nottingham Evening Post |
29 Jan 2006 | Scunthorpe Telegraph |
30 Jan 2006 | Newcastle Evening Chronicle |
2 Feb 2006 | Leicester Mercury |
10 Feb 2006 | Loughborough Echo |
15 Feb 2006 | Time Out London (William Orbit Article) |
16 Feb 2006 | Computer Active |
4 Jun 2006 | The Sunday Times |
5 Jun 2006 | The Metro, The Sun, The Daily Mail, BBC News Feature Article / News Page |
9 Jun 2006 | BBC2 – Have I Got News for You |
8 Aug 2006 | BBC Online, eGov Monitor |
14 Aug 2006 | BBC Radio 2 – Miles Mendoza |
21 Aug 2006 | eGov Newsletter |
31 Aug 2006 | BBC Online, Sky News, The Times, The Sun, The Independent,Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Metro, Guardian |
1 Sep 2006 | Readers Digest Sept Edition, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Wales |
2 Sep 2006 | West Australian Newspaper , The Age (broadsheet in Melbourne, Australia) |
12 Sep 2006 | The Scotsman |
17 Sep 2006 | BBC SW Local Radio |
20 Sep 2006 | Directions Magazine |