Work
2025+2026: Career break to cycle around the world
2023+2024: Press officer, Crawford Art Gallery
2015 – present: Freelance journalist covering arts, environment, local government
2016 – 2023: part-time media lecturer at BA and MA level at Griffith College Dublin and Cork. The BA in Journalism discontinued in 2021 as part of rationalisation on GCC campus. Lectured at GCD from 2018 – 2023, also supervised MA dissertations.
2015: Simon Cumbers Media fund award to travel to Ethiopia
2015: SMEDIA award for Radio Documentary of the Year for doc on walking the Caminho Portugues
2003-2012: Co-owned and managed the Natural Foods Bakery
2008: Co-founded Blackrock Village Farmer’s Market in Cork
Qualifications
2012-2015: BA in Journalism, Griffith College Cork. Research methodologies, audio, video and photo editing, writing and communication skills, interviewing in sensitive situations and vulnerable communities. Graduated with a first.
2015-2017: MA in Journalism and New Media from CIT (now MTU). Further development of research methodologies. MA dissertation included workshops with Transition Year students on Fake News and verification. Graduated with a 2:1
2018: Cert in Training and Education from Griffith College Cork (GCC). Module design, pedagogical theories, novel assessment strategies, self-reflective practice. Graduated with a special award for academic excellence.