My background

I have lived in various parts of England but right now I live in Brixton. I am fluent in English and German.

I am a pacifist and a person with cerebral palsy and these facts inform my work whilst the object of objectivity remains a core professional aim.

I am passionate about the media's ability to explore and answer questions, and I intend to increase my output of well-researched and well-executed multimedia journalism and to use the media to progress social equality.

I went to school in Lancashire and university at Nottingham Trent University Centre for Broadcast Journalism, whence I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Broadcast Journalism in 2004.

As a student and then a trainee I have worked as a radio and TV journalist for Dune FM in Southport, Mansfield 103.2 and the Granada and Yorkshire arms of ITV.

After graduating, I spent a period in Bremen intensively improving my German proficiency - concluding in a proficiency level of C1 on the European Language Framework.

Immediately on my return to the UK, I took my present job as a monitor for press cuttings agency Precise.

In this job I have honed my ability to read complex and sector-specific topics and summarise them with little notice for demanding and high-profile clients.

I have supplemented my paid employment with voluntary work at Resonance 104.4fm, conducting legal checks on material, editing programmes for transmission, ensuring and announcing schedule continuity and engineering live output.

This station acts as the host for my journalism and I am series producer for Technical Difficulties. Preceding the full series, I made a documentary - Prodigal Paralympians and more recently an interview piece Waiting by Breitenbach.

Engineers, programme-makers, we are all volunteers and the station is a charity. So we need your money to stay on air. Have a listen on www.resonancefm.com and drop a coin in the tin.

Whilst my paid work gives me extraordinary access to a wide panorama of news and opinion, I am passionate about the media's ability to explore and answer questions and I am increasing my output of well-researched and well-executed multimedia journalism.

I have travelled the world many times, sat with people in far corners of the world whilst they ate and drank and basked in the glories of a person's eyes but most of my journeys have been through landscapes of the mind with proxy physicality and spiritual sensitivity much greater than its tangibility.

I will never stop looking, listening and tasting.

Behind the curtain, so much goes in that never sees the light of day

In the words of FLOetic Lara, "my cultures don't clash, they work in cohesion"