Examples of my writing

Legal writing

Profile pieces

Monitor on Psychology - the magazine of the American Psychological Association

Mac Smith uses his psychology training to help Google better understand human behaviour

Matt Miller's career is dedicated to supporting the military and preventing veteran suicides

Business Quarter Scotland

Business Quarter Scotland ran a quarterly lunch feature, where I interviewed a high profile business person (and got a nice lunch):

Ed Monaghan ofMactaggart and Mickel housebuilders (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Dougal Sharp, of Innis and Gunn (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Nick Price of Bright Purple IT and financial recruitment company (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Colin Temple, head of Schuh (Pages 1, 2 and 3).

I also wrote about the ScotGold mine at Cononish, page 1,2, 3 and 4.

Supercomputing Wales

I wrote the case studies on Supercomputing Wales site, giving examples of where high performance computing is used. While this is ‘copywriting’ rather than journalism, it gives good examples of my ability to translate very complex, technical situations into readable stories.

Other journalism

The Connexion - French news and views

Connexion France: Take the high speed train to Spain May 2018
Paris to ban petrol cars by 2030 12 Oct 2017
Flu vaccinations available from Friday 5 Oct 2017
Almost half of Levothyrox stocks sold in two days 5 Oct 2017

Scotland Outdoors

Read about audaxing, and the Mille Alba 1000km audax (Page 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

IDG News Service

I was senior correspondent at IDG News Service in London from 2001 to 2004, assigning stories and writing news stories, columns and features.Most articles are no longer online, but this remains!

Department of Energy buys fastest Linux system

Other work

I have also written for Scientific Computing World, Planet HPC, and the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network, the Scotsman and CA Magazine but the pages have moved/ been removed and so my work is lost to the mists of time. (I’m sure I have copies on Word, if anyone is really interested…)