Articles and Comments About My Work

 

Sub Zero Teachers

Shooting PD

2 x 30 mins for Teachers’ TV


This series was covered extensively in both the written and broadcast media. As well as feature articles in local and national publications, my footage from the documentaries was used on news programmes on BBC1, ITV and Five.


There was also a preview of the forthcoming series in Broadcast magazine:

BROOK LAPPING TRACKS ANTARCTICA TRIP Teachers TV has commissioned two 30-minute documentaries from Brook Lapping on the experiences of four teachers travelling to Antarctica, writes Chris Curtis. The science and geography teachers will set out on their expedition to conduct scientific research in November this year. The trip will mark the 50th anniversary of the trans-Antarctic expedition by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Brook Lapping is currently on location with the teachers in Norway, where they are training. Later this year the group will travel to Chile where they begin their journey to Antarctica. Brook Lapping will follow their progress, supplemented by video diary footage taken by the teachers during the expedition. The two part series will also be supported by 4 x 15-minute resource programmes. It was commissioned by joint head of programmes David Libbert. The executive producer is Brook Lapping’s Jim Franks. Broadcast, August 2007

How Stressed is Your School?

Original idea/Producer

1 x 60 mins

1 x 40 mins

3 x 30 mins for Teachers’ TV

Having come up with the idea, I then co-produced the series, which took a scientific look at stress 

levels in schools.


PHOTOCOPIER NIGHTMARES When teachers donned high-tech stress vests for an experiment, it revealed some unexpected pressure points in schools. Irena Baker reports ON THE monitor the red line suddenly leaps skyward. Is the photocopier broken again? Is it Ryan Smith's mum asking for an interview? Or is it just the Year 12 class from hell? Guinea pig teachers agreed to have their heart rates and blood pressure measured during a normal working day. Watching the screen from a caravan in the playground, psychologists charted how staff reacted to the stresses and routines of the job. Teachers' TV is making a documentary called How Stressed Is Your School?, but it has already been dubbed "Badger Watch with Teachers". A film crew has been following eight volunteers around Kings Langley school in Hertfordshire for five days. Times Educational Supplement, February 2007 For a full transcript please click here shapeimage_3_link_0
 

“This should be compulsory viewing for every headteacher and Governor in the land. Significantly it raises the importance of sustainability as a change mechanism for education rather than simply a building programme. The questions the report raises and the clarity which comes through from this programme should mean that this report has a much wider audience. Congratulations on a first rate piece of television.”

Viewer comment on “The Select Committee and the £45 million question”

It is thought provoking programme and enables us to share in the controversy between scientists - as well as bringing us up to date with recent research. I am using it at present with my students on the BA Education Studies Programme. It really opens up discussion on "Where next?" and links in well with my sessions on brain function and the idea that learning and life style are linked.

Viewer comment on “Neuroscience, Schools and the Future”

Dispatches: The Truth About Going

                        Under the Knife

Associate Producer

Camera Operator

1 x 60 mins for Channel 4


This programme was well received by viewers, doctors and the medical devices industry. Indeed, even people that produce medical devices admitted it aired some of their concerns about regulation.


British MPs and US senators have subsequently asked to see the programme, with a view to changing the system by which devices are regulated.