I'm an award-winning freelance journalist, blogger and author. I began my working life in an office and was features editor of Community Care magazine and editor of Housing magazine and Environmental Health News.
In 2018, I became a London-based freelance, specialising in writing about the environment and business, working for UK and international clients. I've edited publications on climate change, sustainable investment, carbon capture, hydrogen, waste and the circular exconomy and regenerative agriculture, including for Europe's largest media publisher, Axel Springer.
Equally experienced in news and feature writing, I love to write about complex topics in an accessible way and have good contacts. I know my way around social media and I'm an enthusiastic bogger.
Skills
Freelance clients
The Guardian, New Society, The New Statesman, Evening Standard, City Limits, The Observer, Environment Analyst, Inside Housing, Public Finance, New Start, Crafts, Horticulture Week, Materials Recycling World and many more.
Education
London College of Printing, diploma in periodical journalism, 1986
University of Paris VIII, Maîtrise, American literature, 1983
Bangor University BA Hons, English literature, 2:1, 1980
Awards
CIEH, President's Award, 2015
Editor of the year, PPA, independent publishers’ category, 2012
Housing journalist of the year, the Housing Corporation, 1998
Books
Pioneers in Public Health (chapter 11), Routledge, 2017
Putting wrong things right: environmental health services, 1952-2012, CIEH, 2014
The stuff of life: public health in Edwardian Britain, CIEH, 2012
Rural Drives: a journey through English housing policy, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1998
