[MEDIA] General Election: What is the role of social media? with @UCBMedia...
Recently I did a pre-record with UCB, who used a short segment of the interview the same day. Today, 3 minutes of the interview were used in UCB’s 12 o’clock news programme, and the full version was on...
View Article[MEDIA] Featured on One of @Audible Most Downloaded Podcasts
Was privileged to be part of this excellent podcast produced by Lisa Mainwaring. It wasn’t related to my work, but Lisa has produced me on other programmes, so asked if I’d talk as a cancer patient on...
View Article[MEDIA] Quoted in @InspireStories re New @ChristianityUK Website
Excited to see the new Christian Enquiry Agency website go live – designed to think about the questions that people want to ask about Christianity, and providing readable and findable content: Our new...
View Article[MEDIA] It’s #SaferInternetDay, I spoke to @PremierRadio, @BBCLeeds and...
Today is Safer Internet Day – so six years ago I was on BBC Radio 2 with Steve Wright, and five years ago on The One Show on the BBC, and I’ve done lots of other press on children and the internet in...
View Article[MEDIA] Talking about @Ofcom new Regulatory Powers with @PremierRadio
This morning it has been announced that Ofcom will have new regulatory powers with regards to online safety. See BBC, Guardian, Financial Times. I’ll be on Premier Radio around 1.20pm speaking about...
View Article[MEDIA] Blog for @YouBelong_2019 on ‘Knowing God’ (and names)
I met Laura at the Premier Digital Conference 2019, and we got chatting. Earlier this year she sent me a list of questions, and (for once in my life) I didn’t overthink the answers. The response to the...
View Article[MEDIA] Talking to Graeme on Coast Access Radio #NewZealand
Late last week I spoke to Graeme Joyes on Coast Access Radio (I think it was Friday morning!) about my research, what I’m doing in New Zealand, and of course a bit of COVID19 came in there (we chatted...
View Article[MEDIA] Chatting with @PaulHUCB re Tracking Apps and Social Media in...
This evening (morning UK time), I had a chat with Paul Hammond on UCB Radio The conversation was triggered by the UK planning to produce a COVID tracking app (see Business Insider, or UnHerd), and...
View Article[MEDIA] Talking about online church with @RevCharBP for #COVID19 and beyond...
Post pandemic many say that the Church of England will never be the same again. While their doors may be physically closed – spiritually – some believe that God is reaching into more homes than ever....
View Article[MEDIA] Could TikTok teens actually make a difference in elections? @GetTheFocus
I chatted to a journalist from The Focus last week: Dr Bex Lewis, an expert in digital marketing and digital culture at Manchester Metropolitan University, says that humour as a way of critiquing our...
View Article[MEDIA] ‘Jesus Tok’: Kanye West seeks to launch Christian TikTok after being...
Yes, I may have had chemo yesterday, but was pleased to be given the opportunity to comment on this story around Kanye West and Tik-Tok this morning. An extract from what I said: In response to Kanye’s...
View Article[CANCER/MEDIA] Talking with @StephenNolan, @SaraBainbridge, @NicMurray &...
Last night I spoke to Stephen Nolan, along with Sara Bainbridge from Macmillan, and fellow cancer patients Lara Montgomery and Nic Murray (we largely spoke in that order, although there’s a bit of...
View Article[CANCER/MEDIA] Talking with @Sarah_Montague on @BBCWorldatOne on @BBCRadio4
This morning I was rung by the production team from World at One, on BBC Radio 4, who had heard my BBC Radio 5 Live piece, and wanted to run something similar. There is a lot of rumbling about the...
View Article[MEDIA] Conversation with @BeckyWant on @BBCRadioManc re Cancer and COVID...
As you may be aware, including from my BBC Radio 5 and BBC Radio 4 programmes, one of many things that has been disrupted by coronavirus, is cancer treatment – both initial diagnostics, and the ongoing...
View Article[MEDIA] Shielded ‘Wellbeing’ with @RevJodyStowell
I was happy to be invited to contribute to Jody’s podcast, around vulnerability in shielding. There are three to listen to before today’s episode (on vulnerability, resilience and weakness), in which...
View Article[MEDIA] Podcast with @tomelliott_uk on ‘Healthy Online Engagement’ for ‘Oh My...
Once described by Miranda Hart as ‘Such Fun’, I really enjoyed having a chat with Tom Elliott the other week. He describes his podcast as ‘The ‘Oh My Days Academy’ helps you thrive in every domain of...
View Article[PRESS] Featured in @MailOnline as part of @METUPUKorg talking about ‘pink...
My section of the article starts: Bex Lewis, from Stockport, was diagnosed with primary breast cancer in 2017, which developed to secondary breast cancer in 2019. She claims one reason for the charity...
View Article[MEDIA] Discussing Cyber-Bullying with David Peek on @UCBMedia / @UCBNewsTeam
Today, I spoke to David Peek, from UCB Radio, as we approach the end of anti-bullying week. A survey for #Antibullyingweek2020 suggests online bullying is up 25% in a year – but with more of us...
View Article[MEDIA] Talking Hope and Grief with @HopefulActivism Podcast
Last week I spoke to Abigail Thomas – it was a lovely conversation – and has been added to this wonderful podcast ‘The Hopeful Activists‘: ? @drbexl I don’t know what to say about this without sounding...
View Article[MEDIA] Discussing being a ‘good enough’ cancer patient with @iamwillonline
I was pleased to be invited to join Will Taylor’s ‘Good Enough’ podcast, off the back of social media content talking about the problematic nature of talking about ‘cancer’ and ‘fighting’.We spoke...
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