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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

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