Dr Laura Nelson is featured regularly on national and regional radio, TV and in the national press. Her Christmas 2011 Hamleys toyshop campaign was covered in newspapers and magazines all over the world and featured in radio documentaries and articles for months. Laura writes for the Huffington Post, MSN Social Voices and Mumsnet, where she is a featured blogger.
The successful Christmas 2011 Hamleys campaign, led by Laura Nelson, was covered by the following
Financial Times article and column • The Times • Today programme • Guardian (Polly Curtis) • Guardian woman’s blog • Telegraph • Telegraph (Judith Woods) • Evening Standard • Marketing Week • BBC Newsround • Channel 4 news • LBC 97.3 radio • Ealing Gazette • Metro • Guardian G2 • Telegraph (Toby Young) • Telegraph (Jenny McCartney) • The Sun newspaper • The Mirror • Time magazine • Jezebel • Daily Mail • Irish Sunday World • The Week • Observer • Ms Magazine • New Statesman • New York Times (Peggy Orenstein) • TNT • Loose Women ITV • International Business Times • Sunday Telegraph Review (cover story)
Numerous articles worldwide, including newspapers and other media outlets in
Italy • Portugal • Canada • Poland • United Arab Emirates • Belgium • Slovenia • Hong Kong • Holland • Australia • Germany • France
Dr Laura Nelson was interviewed on
BBC radio (interviewed by Vanessa Feltz) • Phantom Dublin radio • Radio5Live • BBC Radio West Midlands • CNN TV • Radio 4 PM
Watch Laura being quizzed on CNN TV about gender stereotypes:
Laura’s gender stereotypes project in schools (June 2012) was covered by
BBC radio London • Radio 5 live • Radio Oxford • Evening Standard • Yorkshire Evening Post
Since then, she has been interviewed by and quoted in
the Guardian and New York Times (July 2012) about Harrods following Hamleys’s lead and scrapping its gender signs, and MedicalXpress and Cambridge News about the public debate she spoke at in Cambridge in October 2012.
Laura featured on
Sky TV on the Chrissy B Show (see below) in October, Radio 4 Woman’s Hour in November and BBC World Service radio, BBC Three Counties radio and BBC Radio Five Live in December 2012. Laura was interviewed 15 times on national and regional radio stations on 21 Dec 12 – in connection with the new EU law on equal car insurance for men and women – and was mentioned in the FT newspaper on 3 Jan 2013. She was interviewed for the 9 March edition of the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.