CV summary
Positions
- Freelance Journalist: Sep 2021 - present
- Alfa Fellowship participant, Moscow; Nov 2021-Mar2022
- Journalist, BBC Scotland; 2018-2021
- Journalist, MDR, Leipzig (IJP intern); 2019
- Reporter, Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press; 2017-2018
- Reporter, CommonSpace, Glasgow; 2015-16
Education
- City of Liverpool College — January-July 2017
Diploma, National Council for the Training of Journalists.
- University of Edinburgh, 2013-2015
Sociology MRes (Postgraduate General Certificate: Pass)
- University of Edinburgh, 2007-2012
MA (Hons) Sociology (First Class)
Awards & Scholarships
- Rory Peck Trust bursary, 2022
- Alfa Fellowship, Moscow, 2021-22 (ended due to invasion of Ukraine)- Offered Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Russian & East European Studies, 2020
- George Weidenfeld Bursary, International Journalists' Programme, 2019
- Longlisted for Financial Times Paul McLean trainee programme, 2018
- Bakala Journalism scholarship, Prague - August 2017
- Scholarship + New Statesman internship, Journalism Diversity Fund, 2017
- Coverage of protests against deportations in Glasgow awarded ‘Highly commended’ by Scottish Refugee Council, 2016
- Final shortlist candidate for Channel 4 Dispatches traineeship, 2015
- Awarded 4-year ESRC PhD scholarship, 2012
