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Martha has contributed to Discovery’s Why We Hate, produced by Steven Spielberg, as well as numerous BBC and Sky TV features in the UK, such as BBC News, Sky News, Sky Sports News, and Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, World at One, and PM programmes. Her research has also featured in The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, International Business Times, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Haaratz, Der Speigel, and many other outlets.
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Film & Television
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Hidden Persuaders - The Stuff that Screams are Made of
The Bigger Trip - Woo for ITV
BBC2 -Extraordinary Rituals
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VICE, Decade of Hate - Why the Far Right Tries to Recruit Football Hooligans
Discovery Channel - Why We Hate
Channel 5 - Fights. Camera. Action.
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BBC Radio 5Live - Stress Football Fans Experience Could Be Putting Them at Risk of A Heart Attack
BBC2, Victoria Derbyshire - Stress and Cortisol Among Football Fans
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Sky News, The Great Debate - Is racism in sport here to stay?
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Group behaviours
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Prison
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Science News (online) - We prioritize family over self, and that has real-world implications
La Vanguardia (Spain) - Los vínculos sociales ayudan a mantener la salud en situaciones de crisis
Telegraph (UK) - Older people break Covid rules more than the young because they worry less about the future
Science News (USA) - Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Der Spiegel (GER) - Does watching football make you sick?
The Times of India (India) - Study claims football fans experience a dangerous levels of stress
Independent (UK online) - Devoted football fans experience dangerous levels of stress, research finds
BBC News (Online) - Devoted football fans experience 'dangerous' levels of stress
Daily Mail (Football: Online) - Football fans are 'at risk of a heart attack' due to intense levels of physical stress while watching their team play, Oxford researchers claim
The Sun (UK) - LIFE'S A PITCH Football fans at greater risk of heart attacks due to stress levels, research claims
Daily Mail (health: online) - Devoted football fans may be at greater risk of heart attacks because of 'rocketing' levels of stress during matches, scientists claim
LCI (France) - If you support your football team too much, you risk your health
BBC (Turkey) - Dangerous levels of stress seen in dedicated football fans
The South African (SA) - Hit-documentary series from Spielberg and Gibney explores why we hate
International Business Times - Ritual group pain: Strong negative experiences help explain evolutionary puzzle of suicide attacks
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Independent (UK) - Third of adults ‘feel pressured to drink alcohol while socialising’
The Mirror (UK) - Three in 10 Brits have felt pressured into drinking alcohol when socialising
BBC Sport (online) - Drug-related offences in football could mean five-year bans
Telegraph (UK) - Habitual cocaine use by football fans is a problem the sport needs to face
Athletic (online) - Special report: The ‘flagrant’ use of cocaine at football grounds
Joe (Online) - ‘I did three grams of coke during a game’: Inside football’s problem with Class A drugs
Independent (UK) - Police call for cocaine users to be banned from football matches after Euros mayhem
Police Oracle (UK) - Staffordshire and Wiltshire removed from special measures after making improvements
The Telegraph (UK) - Revealed: 'Alarming' cocaine use at Wembley for England vs Czech Republic
Police Professional (UK) - Cocaine use fuelling new wave of football violence
Daily Mail (UK) - Egos inflated by cocaine and fan tribe culture create a lethal combination
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Telegraph (UK) - Louts – and cocaine – are ruining the sports-watching experience
Police Professional (UK) - Cocaine-fuelled hooligans to be banned from football matches
Telegraph (UK) - English football to launch social-media blitz targeting 'idiots' amid surge in crowd disorder
Guardian (UK) - The rise of disorder at football: why is it happening and what can be done?
The Irish Times (Ireland) - What is driving rise in disorder at Premier League matches?
BBC Sport (online) - Football police chief says cocaine a 'contributing factor' to increased disorder
Independent (UK) - ‘You have to plan for a siege’: Police should have predicted Wembley storming, experts say
Mail Online (UK) - From jumping on tables to taking their tops off: Experts explore the science behind football fan behaviours ahead of the Euro 2020 final
Vice (International) - Cocaine Makes Football Fans More Aggressive, Say Football Fans
Daily Star (UK) - 'Racism isn't going away' Expert in DAMNING verdict on football abuse
Mail Online (UK) - A lack of police, untrained stewards, complacency from football's powers-that-be, idiotic fans... all combine to leave the beautiful game in the gutter
BBC Mundo (Argentina) - River - Boca en la final de la Copa Libertadores: ¿por qué los hinchas de ambos equipos se odian tanto?
Cosmos (Online) - Football violence driven by tribal loyalties
UOL Noticias (Brazil) - Violência nos estádios está ligada a comportamentos humanos primitivos.
Business Standard (India) - Desire to protect fans lead to football hooliganism
Haaretz (Israel) - What Soccer Hooligans and Terrorists Have in Common
International Business Times - How understanding football violence could help the fight against terrorism
New York Post (USA) - Soccer fans have the same mentality as terrorists, study claims
The Sun (UK) - A YOB FOR LIFE Football hooligans behave like TERRORISTS, Oxford University academic claims
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The Mirror (UK) - Millions of drivers miss out on road trip memories as they focus on SatNavs and traffic
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PsyPost (online) - Awe-inducing raves are linked to transformative experiences and social bonding, study finds
DJ Mag (online) - Raving and psychedelics create “meaningful social bonds”, study finds
Mixmag (UK) - Raving changes our brains and creates meaningful bonds, according to study
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Open Democracy (online) - We must realise the threat posed by Saudi Arabia’s Newcastle ‘sportswashing’
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The Telegraph (UK)- What watching England play football does to your body
i (UK) - Why it's better to watch the Euros in a crowd, according to scientists
The Telegraph (UK) - Revealed: the surprising softer side of football hooligans
The Sun (UK) - HUG A HOOLIGAN Football hooligans would rather HUG than fight, study finds
Sun (UK) - FANFARE New generation of Premier League fans are NOT as die hard – with 20 per cent not even supporting a team
Guardian (UK) - Forget winning streaks, it's the bad times that really fuse us together in football – and in life
Mail Online (UK) - Fans of Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea are 'not as loyal to their fellow supporters as those of less successful football clubs' as seeing your team LOSE strengthens ties
Telegraph (UK, Print) - Shared 'suffering' by fans of the worst Premier League teams creates 'strong social glue', study finds
Le Temps (France) - Les plus mauvais clubs ont les meilleurs supporters, indique une étude britannique
Independent (UK) - Football clubs urged to help ‘stressed’ football fans chill out and avoid serious health risks, study shows
BBC News Videos (UK) - Football 'not just a game' for devoted fans
Mail Online (UK) - The secret of football hooliganism: Violent fans are 'socially bonding', researchers say
La Vanguardia (Spain) - El vínculo social es la causa de que existan los hooligans
Punch (Nigeria) - Study shows social bonding key cause of football violence
XinHuaNet (China) - Study shows social bonding key cause of football violence
Rzeczpospolita (Poland) - Tribal community of fans
The Sun (UK) - MIND GAMES Fans of poor Premier League teams develop a ‘Band of Brothers’ mentality similar to SUICIDE BOMBERS, study reveals
Mail Online (UK) - Why fans of perennially-poor football teams share traits with suicide bombers: Band of brothers' mentality can drive extreme behaviour
The Telegraph (UK) - Football defeat inspires fans' loyalty just as much as victory, psychologists find
The Mail, North West Evening Mail (UK) - Psychologists work out why we stay loyal to our football club - even in defeat
Independent.ie (Ireland) - Psychologists work out why we stay loyal to our football club - even in defeat
Mail Online (UK) - Why we can't help supporting the losing teams: Football fans' loyalty is made STRONGER by defeats
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Independent - How to save money on your laundry