EXPERIENCE
Freelance Journalist:
Sept 2021 - Present
Alfa Fellowship, Moscow
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Journalist, BBC Scotland
2018 - 2021
Journalist, MDR, Leipzig (IJP Intern):
Oct - Dec 2019
Reporter, Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press
2017 - 2018
Reporter, CommonSpace, Glasgow
2015 - 2016
EDUCATION
City of Liverpool College, Jan - Jul 2017
Diploma, National Council for the Training of Journalists
University of Edinburgh, 2007 - 2012
MA (Hons) Sociology (First Class)
Shortlisted, Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing, 2026
Shortlisted, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, 2025
Winner, First Book Award, Saltire Society, 2024
Winner, Highland Book Prize, 2024
Shortlisted for the Foreign Press Association awards, arts and culture category, 2023
Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize, 2023
Travelling Scholarship, Society of Authors, 2023
Runner-up Reporter of the Year, Scottish Press Awards, 2023
Shortlisted, Amnesty Media Awards, 2023
Shortlisted, Best Investigation, Freelance Journalism Awards, 2023
Rory Peck Trust training bursary, 2022
Alfa Fellowship, Moscow, 2021-2022 (cut short 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