News & Media
Our researchers are regularly engaged in public-facing media activity. Below you will find links to news articles, podcast appearances, TV and radio features, and other media coverage related to the work of the CHANGE group.
Media coverage
Dr Matt Brooks
- Jurors need help — gruelling criminal cases can leave them with lasting trauma (The Conversation)
- Jury service, PTSD and rape trials (The Telegraph)
- The complicated truth of post-traumatic growth (BBC Worklife)
Dr Hannah Fawcett
- The Trial Podcast (2024) — Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: Jury Service. Season 4, Episode 25.
- PTSD symptoms rise four-fold in jurors exposed to distressing evidence (The Independent, December 2024)
Dr Jasmine Hearn
- Parliamentary Debate on Statutory Menstrual Leave (April 2025)
- LBC Radio feature on Parliamentary Debate on Statutory Menstrual Leave (April 2025)
- ‘Gaslit by doctors’: UK women with endometriosis told it is ‘all in their head’ (The Guardian, January 2024)
- ‘It’s just period pain’: Why doctors are gaslighting women over endometriosis (The Independent, January 2024)
- Women’s pain is readily dismissed (Women’s Health Magazine, January 2024)
- European Pain Federation panel talk on endometriosis pain
- Burning, Crushing, Stabbing: How Words Affect Pain (The New York Times, November 2021)
Dr Robert Dempsey
- Why you feel pressure to adhere to Christmas traditions (The Conversation UK, December 2025)
- Tackling mental health in professional rugby — lasting change (Manchester Met news, November 2025)
Dr Sören Henrich
- Illuminating the forensic black box: understanding radicalisation in secure settings (CREST Research)
- Dungeons & Dragons — long played for fun, is being explored for therapeutic potential (NPR, February 2026)
- Dungeons and Dragons at 50: how the role-playing game may soon be used as a form of therapy (The Conversation)
- European Commission feature
Dr Yael Benn
Professor Maddy Arden
- Expert witness to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on adherence to Test, Trace and Isolate behaviours (May 2025)
- BBC Newsnight interview
- BBC Radio 4 interview
- BBC 5 Live interview
- Behavioural science can help make the UK’s track and trace app a success (The Conversation)
More media coverage will be added as it becomes available.