A skilled journalist with ten years experience as magazine editor, news editor, features editor, features writer and award-winning news reporter. Clients include The Guardian, The Telegraph, Coaching at Work, Construction News, HSJ and Museums Journal. My expertise is in the public sector and I enjoy covering complex debates about how to run services and change people's lives. I also specialise in writing about the NHS, academia and workplaces. But I've covered everything from the supernatural to showbiz, from culture to care homes, and am happy to work over a broad range of subjects. See samples below and my blog to find out more.
I'm interviewing academics at the University of East London for a research brochure. The other day I met someone called Barbara Taylor. "So what's the real world impact of your book going to be?" I asked chirpily. "Well, it's going to be published by Penguin," she replies. "It's about mental health, a mixture of historical study and memoir as I've spent three years researching the asylum system, and I was in Friern Barnet hospital in the 1980s. Books like that tend to attract a lot of attention." She's only The Barbara Taylor - world famous historian of feminism! Actually I've never heard of her, but one has a way of noticing when one is the presence of brilliance and a quick google afterwards confirmed I had been. The book is about how we look after each other - everyone needs looking after, mental health is just one example of that. She says that question is nothing new, it's always been a preoccupation of feminism. But th...