BBC broadcaster gives media tips to Sussex psychologists

BBC broadcaster gives media tips to Sussex psychologists. BBC broadcaster and Sussex alumna Claudia Hammond gave invaluable media tips to psychology students and researchers when she paid a return visit to campus on Friday (17 May) and met up with some of her former tutors. Claudia, who presents ' All in The Mind ' on BBC Radio 4 and ' Health Check ' for the BBC World Service, studied applied psychology at Sussex in the early 1990s and was taught by Dr Helga Dittmar and Dr Rod Bond. She was invited back by the School of Psychology to talk about her dual career as a broadcast journalist and psychology academic. "It took many years before I could combine the two," she revealed. "I worked at the local BBC radio station in Brighton when I was a student and ended up doing the greyhound racing predictions for a while. I then took an MSc at Surrey and for a while I wasn't sure whether to carry on with psychology or continue with radio, so I did both." She went on to teach Open University summer schools at Sussex, while also freelancing for various Radio 4 programmes, including 'All in the Mind', which was then hosted by Anthony Clare.