Freelance profile

Tracey Logan (Historian and Writer)

Academic historian,former BBC Science reporter & media/communications coach. Working on a book about Greater London's late-Victorian / Edwardian growth. Hon. Visiting Fellow at School of History, Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester.

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Contact details:

Town: Chiswick
Region/nation: London
Country: United Kingdom
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Skills:

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BroadcasterRates: Broadcasting
ReporterRates: Reporter
Feature writerRates: Print media
TrainerRates: Teaching/training
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Subjects:

  • History
  • Sciences
  • Technology
  • Medicine
  • Environment and conservation

Profile last updated: 2024-03-26 09:08:22


Extra information:

Gained PhD in urban history in January 2023 after a 20-year BBC career as an award-winning radio science reporter, producer & presenter. Tracey's Current academic focus is on the growth of Greater London in the late-19th / early-20th century, including the impact of electricity, powered flight and the motor car on ancient villages just outside London. She has acted as an historical consultant for a US series currently in production. Formerly presented BBC Radio 4's 'Inside Science', BBC World Service's 'Science in Action' and Go Digital (now Digital Planet). Also published in New Scientist, Daily Mail, Irish Times and The Universe.  

As a freelance reporter from 2006, Tracey's work included presenting BBC Science 'specials', such as the live edition of Radio 4's 'Inside Science' announcing the discovery of gravitational waves (a century after Einstein predicted them) in February 2016. 

As a BBC staffer Tracey covered all the major science stories between while maintaining a special interest in the development of the internet and World Wide Web. She was the first anchor of Go Digital, a radio show with online pictures (later rebranded as Click and then Digital Planet).  Tracey has also worked as a  documentary & magazine show presenter & producer, including on Woman's Hour. She has also been BBC World Service Science Correspondent, worked as a producer on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World, and presented editions and filmed reports of BBC World TV's Science World. 

Recent Highlights (Academic)

Academic Degrees:

PhD awarded (2023). My Thesis, 'Out West: Brentford, Chiswick and the Growth of Greater London, 1894-1927', is accessible via the University of Leicester's Research Archive, here: <https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.21695171 >.

Masters in Historical Research (2016). My dissertation, 'Improving Chiswick, 1858-1883, is accessible via the University of London's SAS-Space, here: <https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6442/>

BA (Hons) African History (1982)

Publications:

"A new discovery, a portion of the lost Chiswick Enclosure Map",The London Topographical Society Record (2015), Vol. XXX1.

Highlights (BBC)

BBC Radio 4:

"Gravitational Waves - Live Special Edition":  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zj4dl

"Science Stories:  The Bone Wars http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xh31n

"Crossrail - Tunnelling Under London": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036ksz2

"Technicolour":  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qfrkr

"The Future of Particle Physics"`: http://bbc.in/URIHPF

“Happy Birthday Neptune”: online here

“British More or Less” (Producer: Helen Toland, BBC Radio Ulster)

FOOC: “Irish Turfcutters Battle Over EU Bog Ban":online here 


BBC World Service:

Science in Action:  http://bbc.in/SOb67e

“Discovery Special: Brazilian Trials of anti-Dengue GM Mosquito”: online here

“One Planet: Irish Turfcutters v EU Habitats Directive” online here

Other 

In Summer 2009 Tracey travelled to the Arctic, living & working alongside polar researchers at Toolik Field Station in northern Alaska on an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellowship. Her reports on climate change in the Arctic Circle subsequently featured on the BBC’s Science in Action, One Planet and Leading Edge radio programmes, and in New Scientist magazine.

Other freelance reports for BBC radio include the World Wide Web’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations at CERN, Emotional Expression in Humans & Machines, Science Diplomacy, Social Networking, and Voiceprint Technology helping Filipino Pensioners. 

In addition to journalism, Tracey also has extensive experience in media training, having worked mainly for UK research councils (eg.the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBSRC]) and, more recently, with academics at the University of Leicester. 

Tracey is a keen singer and cyclist.

Photographs

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Arctic Ocean 2009 © Tracey Logan Arctic Ocean 2009
Recording links on the shore at Prudhoe Bay - a thin white line of summer sea ice still visible on the Arctic Ocean's horizon.
Inside Bazalgette's Sewers, 2007 © Tracey Logan Inside Bazalgette's Sewers, 2007
Reporting for BBC Radio 4.