Director of Leeds memory group Professor Martin Conway joined BBC Radio 4's PM programme at an exhibition of Freud's sculpture collection at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (open until April 23). Speaking to presenter Nigel Wrench, Professor Conway said the sculptures were an invitation to read something into Freud the man, and that we should allow them to stimulate our imagination.

Chemistry student Sarah Curtis was featured in the Daily Telegraph as a finalist in this year's Famelab to find the new face of UK science. She impressed judges, including former Tomorrow's World presenter Kate Bellingham and Channel 4 commissioning editor Kashaf Chaudhry, with her three-minute explanation of the chemistry of tea and clubbers' nightsticks.

Boys want to study weapons of mass destruction while girls would rather learn about eating disorders, according to research by Professor Edgar Jenkins, reported on BBC Radio 5 live. The Independent featured the study of what 15-year-olds want from their science lessons.

Research to create a 3D map of the pipes and cables under the nation’s roads (Mapping the underworld) was covered in the Guardian and the Times. Professor Tony Cohn told BBC online: “You can’t look at an Ordnance Survey map to find out what's under the ground. We will be producing an ‘underlay’ to the OS, to show you what’s down there.’ For further information, see BBC online

The BBC was accused of being 'almost endemically' homophobic in its portrayal of gay people, according to a study for Stonewall by director of Leeds social science institute Professor Gill Valentine, reported the Independent. The Guardian, Times, and BBC Radio One's Chris Moyles - one of the presenters highlighted by the researchers - covered the story. "The BBC rarely challenges homophobia and consistently allows its presenters to perpetuate negative attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, and gay sexuality," reported the Telegraph.

Quantum physicist Professor Vlatko Vedral has been given his own show on BBC Radio Leeds. 'Ask Vlatko about science' is broadcast on Tuesdays from 2-3pm and listeners have asked about everything from science funding to quantum entanglement and Maxwell's equations.

English lecturer Dr Richard Brown joined BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to mark the UK release of a new film based on James Joyce's Ulysses. He discussed the final episode of Ulysses and his forthcoming book, Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body.

BBC Radio 4's Today programme set up a citizens' jury in Reading to find out the effectiveness of participatory democracy. Asked about getting people involved with politics, Leeds' professor of political communications Stephen Coleman said: "I don't think there's a lack of sincerity or genuine intention on the part of politicians. I think there's a failure to understand that they've got to put down the megaphones and start to use technologies and techniques which are about interactivity, about conversation and about acknowledgement."

Leeds medical ethics expert Dr Michael Rivlin joined BBC Radio 4's Today programme and BBC News 24 to discuss the protection of participants in the troubled drug trial at London's Northwick Hospital . Speaking to Radio 4, he expressed sympathy for the victims but said such cases were 'extremely rare'. He said he had never come across any similar cases.