On this website you will discover a rich portfolio of research analysis, logistics writing, sustainable transport writing, sailing writing and social affairs writing that I have done over the last 20+ years.
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- Bespoke research and analysis
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- Journalism
- White papers
- Financial news
Career to Date…
Graduating with a BSC (Hons) in Maritime Studies At Solent University in 1997, like many graduates I really didn’t know what to do. Eyesight prevented me from fulfilling my then-dream of a career at sea, and I tried various administrative roles while working in community radio for a bit of fun.
My interest in journalism was first sparked in 1986-87 when I visited my father during his posting in the Falkland Islands. Here I got to see recent battlefields including the foxholes of Wireless Ridge, minefields and craters from 1,000lb bombs, as well as shipwrecks from the UK’s invasion. Aged 11 at the time, I’d already spent half my life in different countries in the US and Europe thanks to my family’s NATO postings. To me, world affairs were the reality of life. My father even got in trouble when Tom Clancy published his first bestseller Hunt for Red October that was a little too accurate for the CIA’s liking!
Thus in Bristol, when the opportunity to do an MA in broadcast journalism came up, supported by a scholarship at Falmouth University, I leapt at the chance. Graduating, I returned to Bristol where I drifted for a bit and then ended up a social affairs print journalist, eventually working with various nursing and housing titles like Inside Housing and Community Care and then the Sunday Express.
The call of the sea wouldn’t leave me and on impulse I moved to Weymouth in 2010. It seems old Neptune had a plan or two, and I combined my schooling in the US with my passion for sailing and joined Boating Times Long Island as a feature writer. Three US Olympic sailors hailed from Long Island and thus began a six month Olympics campaign working with Sailing World, Sail Magazine and a few smaller US regional titles. The Olympics left and I remained in Weymouth.
Ever since seeing a lecture by Jonathan Porritt at Westminster Great Hall in the early 90s, I’ve had a passion for climate change mitigation and ultimately transport decarbonisation, and I have worked with various private clients in copywriting and journalism including Freight Carbon Zero and Commercial Vehicle.
Since 2023 I have deepened my research skills and worked with Transport Intelligence and other consultancies as a research analyst. This has involved working on various research projects including industry forecasts, due diligence ahead of product launches and mergers, and white papers and financial news reports on 20 of the world’s major logistics companies. Essentially, my first degree came to some use in the end!
A Note on AI
I am a member of the Digital Media Industrial Council in the National Union of Journalists and one of our core activities is campaigning to ensure that AI is not used to replace journalists in newsrooms. AI can’t write for toffee either! As such, though I do use it for certain activities (rewriting CVs and optimising them for companies’ own AI systems for example), I refuse to use AI in my own writing.
They say that AI will change the world – in my opinion for the worse. There are a raft of problems with it, not least in creative writing. You won’t find me using something that kills creativity.