Welcome

Lover of challenges, creativity, curiosities. Freelancer, manager, researcher. Folklore, place, people, identity. Some things digital, some things education.

To get in touch, email contact at this website.

Currently working on: a long-running fiction project, and developing a couple of very different ideas. There are also non-fiction thoughts percolating.

Call in at Elosa for brief updates about family life and other oddities.

New for Autumn 2023: Scribbles and Sketches.

Structured(ish) thoughts on a variety of subjects can be found in my Assorted Cogitations notebook. As a by-product of ongoing research, I am sharing newspaper snippets from days gone by: The Newspaper Project. I am also compiling a collection of links, excerpts, quotes, anything I find interesting, really: The Library.

My research thesis, Digital Ethnography and a Virtual Orkney: The Role of Folklore in Creating an Online Orkney Place, can be accessed via the University of Aberdeen repository.

I have collated some of my thoughts on Higher Education which were originally published elsewhere:

These posts were based on a presentation I initially gave to the Medical Educators’ Forum at the University of Edinburgh in April 2018 focussing on The Role of Professional Services Staff in Higher (Medical) Education, which I subsequently further developed for a session at the AUA Autumn Conference in November 2019.

In November 2021, I wrote a follow-up to these thoughts for AUA Development Monthly: Are our roles sustainable? Challenges for Professional Services Staff

Other Higher Education thoughts still online include a shared reflection on Graduate Trainee programmes in the sector, reflecting on experiences of an Ambitious Futures colleague.