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Employment history:

Editor, Platform Magazine, October 2004 - ongoing. Bi-monthly print magazine covering interviews, reviews and features on art, music, literature, theatre and film in Swansea. I cover all aspects of production as well as contributing photographs and content.

Photographer, various bands and band websites in Swansea, 2004/5. My photographs have been used by many bands, fanzines, and websites and the South Wales Evening Post's Going Out section.

Judge, New Art & Design Show, Exposure Gallery, Swansea, December 2005. Judged the best in show at their latest exhibition. Also judged their Best of Welsh Graduates Show earlier in the year.

Judge, TheatreSlam, Summer 2005. I was a judge for round 2 and the final of the new scriptwriting competiton hosted at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre.

Viral adventure game developer, TheSite.org, June 2005. Wrote an adventure game based on a Friday night out for 16-25 year olds linking in information on sex, drugs, alcohol, relationships and personal safety.

Freelance Journalist, PR and events officer, Swansea Fringe Festival. July 2004 - ongoing. I assist on this from time to time throughout the year, the actual festival taking place in October. I put content together for their website and brochure, wrote press releases and organised publicity. Reviews of mine from events have appeared on the Theatre Wales website.

Freelance Journalist and Youth Journalism Award Co-ordinator, Mumbles Matters. April 2005 - ongoing. I write news, features and interviews for this quarterly local newspaper produced by Mumbles Development Trust as well as running their youth section, 11:25.

Freelance journalist, photographer and film crew for Swansea Arts Forums Trust, July 2004 - on going. Filming, interviewing, props, hair and make up for rockumentary on the Uplands Music Festival in collaboration with Tunetown.

Freelance journalist and photographer, Tunetown Magazine, Swansea, July 2004 - July 2005. Music reviews, band shots, articles etc. for popular local music monthly produced by local music community business Tunetown.

Channel editor/ Journalist, TheSite.org, YouthNet UK, August 2001 - July 2004. TheSite.org is produced and managed by YouthNet UK , a small registered charity founded in 1995. It aims to offer the best guide to life for young adults, aged 16-25. I was responsible for the Community area as well as editing the following content areas for both the magazine and info parts of the website: Student, Relationships, Drugs, Careers, Work and volunteering, Festivals, Going Out, and Legal. My position involved:

  • Having a good knowledge of what 16-25 year old males and females think, feel and aspire to, through interviewing them, moderating our discussion boards and getting out there and asking them.
  • Acting up as editor when editorial director on annual leave;
  • Writing, researching, editing, commissioning, subbing and uploading content for the whole website;
  • Writing copy for advertorials on other websites and publications;
  • Managing freelancers and volunteers;
  • Running the community area of the website including training and managing voluntary moderators, and the young people who wrote rants and diaries.

Contributer, Issues Series, 2004 for Independence Educational Publishers Ltd. Two of my articles have been used as chapters for these educational books.

Freelance Journalist, Education Guardian - Clearing, May- October 2001
I was involved in research for setting up the website, as well as writing many news items, vox pops and features for the live website and for the Clearing print supplement in G2.

Journalist/ researcher (jobshare), Education Guardian, Feb-May 2001
I wrote news items, features and shorts for both the website and print supplement. During my time there I conducted in depth research to enable the team to launch Education Guardian as a website in it’s own right.

Work Experience: As part of my Masters I undertook two work experience placements. The first was at local newspaper, The Deptford Mercury, where I spent two weeks fulltime at the newspaper in September 2000. I wrote features, conducted research, attended meetings with the local council, assisted across all sections of the paper and job shadowed one of their senior reporters.

I then spent two weeks on the news and politics desks at Guardian unlimited in February 2001. During this time I wrote and uploaded the daily news quiz; conducted and edited audio clip interviews; researched and gathered cuttings from the library; and attended editorial meetings.

Waterfront: I was the chief news reporter for the fortnightly student newspaper at Swansea University for my second and final years, writing many cover stories for the publication, which was distributed across the city.

Tunetown (formerly Swansea Songwriters Guild ): I contributed content and photos to the monthly fanzine for this thriving community music business over the last two years of my degree. I was involved in promoting the events (including BBC Music Live), recruiting members at university fayres and SSG events, I have since been involved in local community music programmes in South East London, which included organising and managing the acoustic tent at the Deptford Festival, and producing a website for local band and ‘open mic’ nights.

Education:
  • 2001 Goldsmith’s College, London - MA Journalism - PASS
  • 1997-2000 University of Wales, Swansea - BA Psychology - 2:1

Skills:

  • Quark Express and subbing skills
  • Overseeing magazine production from concept to distribution.
  • I am proficient in Microsoft word, excel, outlook express and PowerPoint.
  • Intermediate Photoshop course & digital photography skills - 2003
  • Commissioning freelancers and volunteers and editing their work.
  • SLR camera use and developing photographs - 1995-1997
  • Html, ftp and CMS - ongoing development of these skills.

Interests and Hobbies:

Music, art and literature are my passions. From piano lessons as a girl and numerous choirs through to religiously listening to the Evening Session in my early teens to my obsessional gig-going social life and singing in a band of my own, nothing fires my soul as much.

Sent to art classes at weekends by my painter step father and stolen from school for trips to the Tate, art has also always been there and isn't fading from my life any time soon.

When I'm not writing for my rent, I'm also inching my way to getting THAT novel together, and pursuing fellow lyrical types for inspiration through their books or live performances.

References Available on Request