Education
Auckland graduated from Durham University with a Degree in Applied Physics in 1969 he then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee Film Editor in October that year.
Auckland graduated from Durham University with a Degree in Applied Physics in 1969 he then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee Film Editor in October that year.
During his time as a British Broadcasting Corporation executive he worked on some of the key educational landmarks in British interactive media including the British Broadcasting Corporation Micro computer and the British Broadcasting Corporation Networking Club. He also set up the British Broadcasting Corporation"s first web production unit which was responsible for award winning websites such as Teletubbies, Bitesize, and produced many of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s early television programmes about home computing and the Internet. He became a television producer and worked on many programmes from Blue Peter to a whole range of award-winning adult education programmes including Johnny Ball"s Think of a Number.
He ran the Innovations Unit within British Broadcasting Corporation Learning (formerly British Broadcasting Corporation Interactive Factual and Learning) until March 31, 2011 when he retired from the British Broadcasting Corporation after 41 and a half years of service.
Auckland worked on Domesday Reloaded from 1 March 2011 to 31 March 2012. This is a project which is involved with the preservation and conversion of the Domesday Project.
He has given talks about this in the past and the many copyright issues at the Computer Conservation Society.
In December 1989 he received a Royal Television Society award for Take Nobody"s Word Foreign lieutenant (Vermeer episode) with Hendrik Ball, the award was in the "adult/continuing education general audience (1988)" category. In spring 1996 Auckland helped create the British Broadcasting Corporation Education Website, and in 1999 became head of a new department: Digital Media, which won the Royal Television Society, Educational Television, 1999 Judge"s Award in (received in 2000) for British Broadcasting Corporation Education Online. In 2007 he received the 2006 RTS Lifetime Achievement Award at the RTS Educational Awards. In 2015 George was awarded the President of the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Prize for his "outstanding contributions to lifelong learning both through television and Online".
