Please contact me for rates and information regarding freelance writing. I can write to professional and academic standards…and I know how to follow a style sheet, use a CMS, and meet a deadline.
Writing jobs which I have held include journalism, blogs and news pages, restaurant profiles, SEO and Social Media work, and as Digital Resources Officer for the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.
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TEACHING:
Tutor for second-year English Literature students at the University of Edinburgh. In 2019 I will be teaching at the Sutton Trust summer school, also at Edinburgh
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JOURNALISM:
(See also ‘Reviews’ tab, above)
Inciting Sparks:
- The Song of a Poet: Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and the Boundaries of Literature
- City of Literature? Opposing Cuts to Edinburgh Public Libraries
Planet News: My 2015 blog ‘The Year When I Read Enough Books’ was republished on Planet News.
The Student. Features and book reviews.
The Forfar Dispatch. In 2011, I wrote an article on witnessing the Brisbane floods for this local Scottish newspaper.
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CLIENTS/EMPLOYERS:
School of Advanced Study. In my role at the University of London I helped to maintain the SAS-Space online research repository, and the SAS online Open Journals. I also worked on the Talking Humanities Blog and the PORT Virtual Learning Environment.
The University of Edinburgh.
- College of Humanities and Social Science web team. Projects included research impact microsite http://impact.hss.ed.ac.uk/, for which I wrote and reviewed case studies.
- Intranet Development Project Officer for the UoE Internal Audit department. 2018.
- Transgender: Intersectional/International. Website for 2019 academic conference.
Clients I have written web copy or online articles for include:
- De Groots Media. Restaurant profiles for Australian restaurant sites, 2010-11. Sample review.
- Direct Travel
- Lemur Clean
- Promotion Products, Budget Promotion & Teaching Agency. SEO work and product catalogues.
- Lettingweb. Daily news articles for Lettingweb’s news site, 2012-13.
- Clare Florist. Daily blogs, social media and web content for www.clareflorist.co.uk, and www.flowerexperts.com. 2012-13.
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