Previous projects


Awards, qualifications and courses

Shortlisted: The Emma Press Call for Essay Submissions for Place Notes (2021)

Writing Beyond the Environment: Emergence Magazine Nature Writing Course (2021)

Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS from the University of Oxford (2018)

MA English Literature and French (First Class) from the University of Glasgow (2015)

Winner: Best Student Article at Write to End Violence Against Women Awards (2014)

Articles and essays

Hidden Scotland: The Edges of Edinburgh, Beyond Scotland’s Capital Without a Car, travel guide in magazine issue 05 (2022)

Hidden Scotland: A Slow Travel Guide to Culross, Fife (2022)

Aetla Magazine: Snow to Spring — Reflecting on Seasons of Loss in a Pandemic (2021)

No Sidebar: Our Lives Are Not Content (2021)

Fen and Field: The B Road — The Art of Slow Travel, interview in issue No. 2 (2020)

Hidden Scotland: Why Slow Travel Could Be Here to Stay, essay in magazine issue 01 (2020)

Hidden Scotland: Ways to Embrace Little, Local Adventures (2020)

Passion Passport: 4 Picture-Perfect Spring Spots in Edinburgh (2017)

Scots Magazine: Why Inverness is Simply Spellbinding (2017)

Scots Magazine: One Day, Three Isles (2016)

Scots Magazine: Three Walks for Autumn Weekends (2016)

Good Housekeeping Magazine: Six Things To Do In Glasgow (2014)

Interviews

Hidden Scotland: Katy Fennema, the Whisky Queen of the Cairngorms, interview in magazine issue 05 (2022)

Hidden Scotland: Inside the Magical World of Illustrator Johanna Basford, interview in magazine issue 04 (2022)

Hidden Scotland: Interview with abstract painter Jemma Craig (2022)

Hidden Scotland: The Spirit of Scotland’s Seas, interview with jeweller Róis Clark in magazine issue 03 (2021)

Hidden Scotland: Meet visual artist Jane Hunter (2021)

Scotland Is Now: The Sustainability Blogger Asking You to Live With Less Waste (2020)

Scotland Is Now: The Spanish Travel Blogger Who Chose Scotland (2020)

Scotland Is Now: The Guitarist Breaking Musical Boundaries (2020)

Scotland Is Now: The Young Scot Sailing Past Stigma (2019)

Scotland Is Now: The Paramedic Who’s Learning Gaelic (2019)

Campaigns

Road to the Isles ‘Coorie’ campaign: Articles on Coast and Inland off-season travel and social media content (2021)

VisitScotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters: Five Ferries blog and social media content (2019)

Visit Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen Jazz Festival blog and social media content (2019)

VisitScotland: Celtic Connections Bothy Culture photography commission (2018)

Historic Environment Scotland, National Trust for Scotland and National Museums Scotland: Jacobite Trailblazer blog and social media content (2017)

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: DigIt! Scotland’s Hidden Gems blog and social media content (2017)

Scotland’s Big Burns Supper: Blog and social media content (2017)

VisitScotland: Outlander film locations campaign with the Scotlanders bloggers collective (2017)

West Coast Tours: Three Isles Tour blog and social media content (2016)

Tennessee Calling Campaign: Blog and social media content (2016)

Social media features

Hidden Scotland: Fife’s seaside villages

Hidden Scotland: Daily Escape feature

Hidden Scotland: Behind the Lens profile

Hidden Scotland: Daily Escape feature

VisitScotland: Dunfermline’s Heritage Quarter

VisitScotland: Culross buildings

Visit Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen in spring

It’s Prim Up North: Fife flowers

Hidden Scotland: Photos of the Week

Welcome to Fife: St Monans’ light

Welcome to Fife: Culross corners

Photos of Britain: St Cuthbert’s Kirk

VisitScotland: Glasgow buildings

Love Great Britain (Sweden): A leafy cottage

VisitScotland: A walking tour of Glasgow

Love Great Britain: Edinburgh streets

VisitScotland: Walter Scott’s Abbotsford

University of Glasgow: Quadrangle in autumn

Welcome to Fife: East Neuk houses

VisitScotland: Hamilton’s hidden gem

VisitScotland: Huntingtower Castle, Perthshire

VisitScotland: Ramsay Garden, Edinburgh

VisitBritain: Terracotta cottages, St Andrews

Barbour: On the footpath to Ben Nevis

VisitScotland: New Abbey main street

Guardian Cities: Dean Village, Edinburgh

Culture Trip: Inveraray at Christmas

VisitBritain: Christmas shopping in Argyll

This is Edinburgh: Calton Hill at Christmas

Passion Passport: #PPStaircase shortlist

VisitScotland: Priorwood Gardens, Borders

BBC Britain: Circus Lane, Edinburgh

VisitScotland: Smailholm Tower, Borders

Passion Passport: Edinburgh heatwave

Guardian Travel Snaps: Pentlands therapy

VisitBritain: Edinburgh Instagram takeover

Guardian Travel Snaps: Kintyre’s bizarre beauty

This is Edinburgh: People in the Pentlands

BBC Britain: Overlooking Dean Village

This is Edinburgh: Sunshine over the city

Love Great Britain Brazil: Circus Lane

This is Edinburgh: Salisbury Crags

Visit Scotland: Kintyre’s seaside houses

This is Edinburgh: Sunrise over Arthur’s Seat

VisitScotland: Sheep at Arisaig

Videos

The Hashtag Scotland Project: How is Social Media Changing The Way We Travel in Scotland? (2019)

Barbour Tartan: 24 Hours on The Isle of Skye (2017)

Barbour Tartan: 24 Hours in Fort William (2017)

Barbour Tartan: 24 Hours in Inverness (2017)

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