I bring positive flexibility and reliable expertise to any role that I undertake. While working in a wide range of community and business settings, I have developed an appreciation of the importance of accessible, effective and creative communication. I combine excellent project management and interpersonal skills with a keen eye for detail.

Books and Stories

• Chosen to read short story Paper to Stone for Telltales Volume XVII 'Human Nature' (2010)
• Chosen to read from Caleb, my novel in progress, for profwriting.com's New Talent Showcase at Port Eliot Literary Festival (2009 & 2010)
• Contributor to Supermum, published by Spruce, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group (2009)

Online

• Website analysis and content restructure for creative professional development organisation Creative Skills (2009-10)
• Critical responses to the BOSarts This Weekend? project, also published in online journal artcornwall (2009)
• Wrote, edited and uploaded content for Port Eliot Festival website (2009)
• Business case studies for Business in the Community annual awards (2009)
• Interviews with creative practitioners and events listings for Creative Falmouth (2009)
• Oral history interviews for BBC People's War online archive (2005-06)
• Online and mobile content for Europe-wide wireless company buongiorno.com (2003)
• Online content and marketing campaigns for second hand book website justbooks.co.uk (now part of abe.com) (2001)

Print

• Financial literacy resource and accompanying workshop materials for use in the homeless sector for Barclays (2010)
• Job coaching manual for Business in the Community's Business Action on Homelessness campaign (2010)
• Features and copy editing for Creative Skills quarterly newsletters (2009-10)
• Editing for BA (Hons) Advertising student handbook, University College Falmouth (2009)
• Educational materials for children and adults linked to community arts projects in Sheffield and Huddersfield (2006)
• Lessons plans, worksheets and teachers’ packs linked to National Curriculum Key Stages and learning aims of Heritage Lottery Fund projects (2005)
• Four themed, monthly community newsletters for voluntary organisation in Belize, Central America (2001)

Projects and Reports

• Writer and editor of website and conference papers for The Falmouth Convention, an international meeting of artists, curators and writers to explore the significance of time and place in relation to contemporary art and exhibition making (2010)
• Contributor to feasibility study for major European arts festival Manifesta, supported by Cornwall County Council and Arts Council UK (2009)
• Funding bids, tenders and project reports for European Social Fund, Big Lottery Fund, Arts Council, New Deal for Communities and local government funders (2006-08)
• Audience development strategies, management plans, funding applications and project implementation documents for local government clients (2003-05)

Workshops and Courses

• Tutor on Creativity in Care Settings course for Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly (2010)
• 'Can you put it in writing?' workshops, through Creative Skills, to help visual creative practitioners channel their creativity into finding a voice and appropriate way of writing about themselves and their practice (2009-10)
• Consultation workshops and reports on findings for local government clients (2005)

2008 – 09
MA Professional Writing, Distinction, University College Falmouth

1998 – 01
BA (Hons) English, 1st Class, University of Nottingham